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Understanding the Continuing Tragedy in the Sahel

4/1/1986 1:05:29 PM

Unique ID UN7771866

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Headline Understanding the Continuing Tragedy in the Sahel

Caption Description For several centuries, the Dogons have been using indigenous techniques of irrigation to grow vegetables and millet at the foot of the mountains where they build their villages. Because of the drought many are now forced to abandon these lands swelling the numbers of the immigrants to the capital. Those who stay are rapidly abandoning their centuries-old traditions, such as that of determining their social class, power and prestige by how far away they lived from the top of the mountain - now, they all scramble down the mountains in search for food and water.
A young boy, a member of the indigenous Dogon tribe in Mali, in his village habitat, in the Dogon village in the area around Bandiagara, in Southern Mali, traditionally being inhabited by this industrious tribe.

Unique Identifier UN7734169

NICA ID 108834

Production Date 04/01/1996 11:32:14 AM

Country Mali

Credit UN Photo/John Isaac