DESERTIFICATION ENCROACHMENT REMAINS A SUPPRESSED THEME, INSPITE OF ITS CONSEQUENCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND NATURAL CATASTROPHES.

DESERTIFICATION ENCROACHMENT REMAINS A SUPPRESSED THEME, INSPITE OF ITS CONSEQUENCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND NATURAL CATASTROPHES.

       Desertification encroachment in the Arab World and particulartly the North, the West and East African countries remains a suppressed theme, inspite of its consequences in climate change, environmental hazards and natural catastrophes that have frequentlyclaimed many lives. specially in the Western and Eastern parts of Africa in which desertification encroachment and famine have been intense and severe respectively, due to crops failure. Environmentalists effort, or rather the attempts for the prevention of gradual destruction of habitat with the extinction of many species by less scientific approach have repeatedly failed. Other prevention methods such as the local population attempts to prevent desert encroachment by digging holes, firelines, walls and reforestation have been overwhelmed by dust storms that often carries enormous amount of sand that covers the holes, the firelines, the walls and the small trees, or shrubs under the expanse of sand dunes.

                                                  Written by Professor Godfrey Ohia.