Climate Shocks, Governance Gaps and the Refugee Crisis in the Sahel

Climate Shocks, Governance Gaps and the Refugee Crisis in the Sahel

Yusuf Abdullahi stood beside the only well left in his town, its rim ringed with rust and water tinted a cloudy brown. For decades, the people of Bultu Briya, a village in Nigeria’s northeastern Adamawa State, had pulled their lives from this liquid in the ground, whether drinking, cooking, or watering their animals. But now, he said, the well has turned against them. When the rains came last year, children who drank from the well fell sick with…