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we journey across the dunes in the

sweltering sands of the Sahara to bring

you stories of struggle survival and

hope from one of the harshest

environments on the planet

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join us as we explore how climate change

is affecting Africa's largest desert

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the Sahara one of the harshest

environments on the planet

dry hot and desolate the Sahara

stretches for nine million square

kilometers covering much of North Africa

varying from seas of dunes to sculpted

sandstone plateaus it can be a vast and

merciless environment yet for centuries

people have survived across the

sun-baked plains the nomads of the

sahara masters of resilience and

efficiency and adaptation

we've traveled about 600 kilometres from

nock shot to the capital of Mauritania

to find them nomads who roam the Sahara

now we're just nearing the Agra region

where we'll hopefully meet with some

goat herders who'll tell us about life

in this challenging landscape

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at the heart of nomad life is animals

ensuring their survival shaped this

community's existence so valuable they

are to know mags that they're often

referred to as blood wealth

DD's day begins at sunrise

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in her suit so began the district

humiliated to universal after getting

help when didi and his herd walk a path

guided by seemingly distinct landmarks

now mapped by memory back at the camp

the woman get to work

nomads are skilled in making necessities

from what they have

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from goats milk to butter nothing goes

to waste

and there's time to spare for some fun

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as the morning heat intensifies Dede and

his goats arrive at a nearby well a

water source that sustains all life here

and will ultimately determine when it's

time to move King get them changing

weather patterns have not gone unnoticed

as the Sahara encroaches into previously

fertile areas with erratic rainfall a

consequence of climate change would make

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if the rains fail or a well dries up

nomads resorts to digging a task that

may take hours or even days

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you know with the bottle it nobody

tempted I wanna socialism but I knew he

said bitterly in the face of unrelenting

Sun and sand nomads life has always been

hard and continues to be for merit

Aeneas remaining two hundred thousand

nomads deedy says modern things would

make life easier especially when nature

is not on your side London with EQ which

I did not had a human with the waning or

didn't have to

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for centuries nomads have migrated

across the Sahara but only in search of

water but from unrelenting Saharan sands

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the ancient town of chin Getty nestled

between the Magnificent dunes of the

Sahara and forever at the mercy of the

sand

it's constant struggle with the desert

has left much of the old town buried or

abandoned

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but remains today is only what lies on

higher ground

once world renowned for its libraries of

ancient Islamic texts the guardians of

Qin Gettys remaining treasures still

rise each day to stop them becoming the

next casualties of the desert crystal

part which Marla Mustapha

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the Ahmed library contains of Islamic

and African scholarship from the heat

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heart of other than a year - still we

say the answer I come from very magnetic

stripe under humanity in the world had

hired he had hired happy with the help

tab to Bandra with tear gas the material

non-motor Hector

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lacking sophisticated technology Saif

has found other ways to care for the

delicate books can't to build a well in

public attention say interested in with

REM with chin Getty was founded in 777

and by the 11th century had become a

cross Saharan center of commerce

connecting sub-saharan Africa to the

Mediterranean ageing nomads recall how

they forefathers crossed the desert for

centuries

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Paleolithic evidence suggests that the

area around chin Getty has been occupied

for thousands of years rock art found

nearby caves indicate that the land was

once a grassy savanna where giraffe

roamed alongside the local people and

their cattle

but over the centuries the shifting

sands of the Sahara have forced

gianetti's residents to twice move and

rebuild the town on higher ground

these are the stone walls of one of the

oldest houses in Chang Getty built in

the 13th century but like much of this

old town it's under threat in fact this

is not the original door that one lies

about three metres below the sand

via a tremendous upper this bomb is also

a minute yet at least initially - off

with a generator here I'd rather get a

chicken in a circle cam 2 0 but a tricky

do tamarod dr hatun dr dr I'm not here

the umbrella dr benefit return 0 he let

me give machine attend we ceremony and

medina salad even deserve a draw her an

acolyte amid the Shapiro so should deny

him no idea

most of what sustained Chang Getty in

the past has now faded leaving the town

to an uncertain future

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even the god is pathetic you need to

measure very good woman is our nation

was Tamara listen I get emotional in

transmission guilty yes the residents of

ginger tea struggle against the

unrelenting Saharan sands every day

there is no grand plan to halt the ever

encroaching desert and the fear persists

that without a resurgence and tourism or

trade there won't be enough resources

available to build a fourth Jannetty if

or when the time comes the Sahara is the

largest hot desert in the world with

temperatures easily soaring to 50

degrees finding water sources often in

unlikely places is the only reason

humans and animals have survived here

for centuries in the desert water means

life tearsheet Oasis is one of

Mauritania desert wonders neatly nestled

between the desert dunes and the rocky

plateaus of the addre region for

thousands of years water has filtered

through the steep cliffs emerging at the

sandy base of the palm light Gorge Jamal

is a descendant of the early nomads who

made desert their home in the 14th

century Elam honesty's Saudi decry hodge

kamikochi the National Guard in my

garage even higher on that window to see

the other stone sheesh Marion

Jamal's forefathers planted the first

date palms here today the abundant

plantation gives the Oasis its iconic

look and the water continues to keep the

plants alive through Jamal's simple but

effective irrigation system the nomadic

in nearby sedentary communities in the

aedra region have come to depend on

tarried Oasis Korea Calandra Menken I am

second to Eric Young a reliable source

of water is a rare thing in the Sahara

and people and animals make the most of

it when they can here in northeastern

Chad these camels are returning from a

week in the sands and there is only one

thing on their minds

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camels are extremely well adapted to

life in the desert they can go over a

week without water and for months

without food

their eyes noses and feet are tailored

for desert conditions and of course

there's that famous fat storm the shade

and water at gelt Adarsh a allows the

camels to bath and refresh and provides

a unique location for learning to swim

but such places are few and far between

just 300 kilometres south from here is a

desert community which isn't so

fortunate sixty five-year-old

am near Bashar our med is among the

first residence of Arica Soni a refugee

camp in the desert

her journey into the desolate Sahel is

marked with scars both emotional and

physical not even forgotten of mallow

one in a few eat her Agha blue only

Jaron I didn't are missing we let the

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reservist DNA Finland is not hurtful of

Anna Kournikova Karen I can imagine he

would the Koala not hold it despite the

frequent sandstorms and the oppressive

heat the camp's population has swelled

to over twenty seven thousand five

hundred people all of whom fled violence

and conflict in neighbouring Darfur

Sudan just seven kilometers from the

camp

the risk of insecurity overlooked in

favor of proximity to a sustainable

water source in the early days clean

drinkable water was difficult to come by

but that has since changed here in Chad

survival comes down to ingenuity this

water source is completely man-made an

artificial lake that supports the lives

of over 30,000 people in the desert

karaoke lake is the source of life for

Orica sauna refugee camp and the small

rural community that surrounds it

NGOs assisted by refugees take parts in

a daily struggle to provide camp

inhabitants with enough water roughly 15

liters per person per day 5 litres a day

less than the UN recommended amounts

more an area highly Amina later our

local Saharan armor

for um Nair and the rest of her fellow

refugees the water in the camp has

allowed them to eke out a simple yet

sustainable existence away from the

horrors of the past becomes you know cut

through the body is happening believe

you know so Cara yesterday we know

min-seok develop al-quran I mean you

know for the hotel was under has taken

to educating the children she cares for

about preserving water

this is the Sahel thousands of

kilometres of dry arid earth an ancient

battle ground between man and the desert

bordering the sahara desert sands are

silently engulfing the region destroying

fertile land and displacing vulnerable

communities in the process but they are

those fighting back

these are unlikely heroes men and women

at the forefront of the Green Revolution

who may just secure the future

livelihoods of millions

Colonel Papa Wally gay leads the fight

against desertification in northern

Senegal a useful directeur général de la

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practice you don't get that these trees

are the first line of defense against a

certification stretching from Dakar to

Djibouti the great Greenwald initiative

is an ambitious project that aims to

halt desertification by planting 11

million hectares of trees across the

width of Africa wait Senegal Newsome MP

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reducing that degradation is crucial to

improving the lives of the semi-nomadic

communities that live in this harsh

environment

ibrahim ADEA whare the principle of the

local school has witnessed how the loss

of land drives poverty unemployment and

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place to survive and the green wall

initiative is expanded from tree

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Sahel lies between the Sahara and the

African savanna it is one of the most

threatened regions when it comes to

climate change but some communities like

the woman in this village have found a

way to fight back

my munis na commands respect quietly

leading an environmental revolution her

army a band of women their weapons

spades and hoes

the woman of kweli alpha are pioneering

new approaches to land use they are

preparing arable land for planting

season by harvest this community will

enjoy fruits and vegetables never grown

here before I mean a la commune doneger

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or hey the woman's agricultural

production has boosted food security and

generated employment their success has

meant that instead of migrating to find

new pastures for their animals they can

stay in the village

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forty two children are enrolled in

Ibrahim as school and he's proud to help

them develop and grow to give something

back to the community

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falala this would be no post on Papa gay

believes the battle to reclaim the lands

of the Sahel is one he and the community

he serves can win my dollar major

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if the world continues to do little to

reverse the effects of manmade climate

change the battle with the desert will

intensify the successful start of the

great green wall initiative in Senegal

provides a valuable lesson for other

vulnerable communities across the

continent

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