How Tuaregs, Hausas Are Avoiding Another Darfur

On the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert herders and farmers with a bitter history of fighting over dwindling resources are now working together to stop a common enemy: the desert's increasingly rapid advance.

... Here in southern Niger, Hausa farmers and Tuareg herders are building water traps to make their shared land more productive, an effort which observers hope will reduce the likelihood of future conflict.

"A few years from now, you will see the land completely changed." - Mahadi Adamou, Hausa farmer/activist