Niamey, Niger, Aug 1, 2025 (AFP) - House razings to save Niger capital's forest shield dismay locals

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Hamissou Issiakou grumbled as he worked to strip bare his house, marked for demolition for illegally encroaching on the tip of green forest that's keeping the expanding desert at bay from Niger's capital. His is one of nearly 500 homes being bulldozed as the authorities in the arid desert country, which is particularly at risk from man-made global warming, seek to shore up the wooded belt around Niamey's outskirts. "We've bought our plots of land......

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