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Sudan: Police Clash With Herders in Sudan's White Nile State Kills One, Injures Nine
2013-06-03 08:30:27| Sugar Industry News
Khartoum One person was killed and nine others were injured including five policemen during clashes that broke out between herders and police in Sudan's White Nile state, an official said today.
Mali conflict ups pressure on climate-stressed herders
2013-03-20 09:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: The recent conflict in northern Mali, where the situation remains volatile, has left many livestock herders in fear of losing millions of cattle, sheep and goats at a time when they were already struggling to find enough pasture for their animals due to drought. Since the spring of 2012, violence between Islamist groups who grabbed much of the north from Tuareg nomads, and the army, supported by foreign troops for the past two months, has disturbed the West African nation's traditional grazing...
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Tanzania: Maasai herders breed fewer, stronger cattle to tackle climate change
2013-01-25 01:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: The loss of more than half their livestock in the 2009 drought has led Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania's Arusha region to breed fewer, stronger cattle and end their traditional focus on numbers alone as symbols of wealth and status. The impact of that devastating drought, which dealt a blow to the whole nation's economy, is still visible in the small number of cattle in many villages of Engarenaibor in Arusha's Longido district. The district's cattle breeders and owners lost at least...
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