Indigenous peoples undersupported on frontline of hotter, drier, fiery world

Indigenous peoples undersupported on frontline of hotter, drier, fiery world

“The heat is unbearable or almost unlivable,” says Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an Indigenous activist from the Mbororo people in Chad. “During … April, the temperature was almost 52° Celsius [125.6° Fahrenheit]. All this has an impact for my Mbororo people, who find themselves with drought and a great lack of water for cattle and humans.” Seminomadic herders living in Africa’s Sahel region, the Mbororo are a minority group who have long endured disc…