Niger is suffering from drought and many inequalities. The drought is not new this year. Since the turn of the millennium, the country’s situation has been worsening, with two turning points. The first was in 2003, with a severe drought that reduced the cereal harvests that form the basis of a resource-poor economy. A year later, a blight wiped out wheat’s resilience and put the country on that edge where it always ends up taking a step forward. Politics was in the middle. Niger’s governments took advantage of good cereal harvests before 2003 to cash in and sell the surplus to Sahelian neighbours. Today’s wheat was tomorrow’s hunger, and when times turned bad there was no capacity to buy back the grain. The first step of the spiral was set. At that point, non-governmental organizations began to intervene.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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