In Burkina Faso, farmers lose land to terror groups, climate change

A farmer in Burkina Faso

A farmer in Burkina Faso. Farmers in the country are increaingly losing land to terror groups and climate change. PHOTO | ABDEL AZIZ NABALOUM | NMG

In Koassanga, a village south of Ziniaré, 35km from the Burkina Faso captial Ouagadougou, it is harvest time. Displaced from Ouanobé, in the centre-north of the country, by terrorist groups, Bernard Sawadogo, 30, and his wife Georgette got a two-acre piece of land. They developed it and cultivated several crops.

But for the Sawadogos, this won’t be much of a harvest. The millet, maize and sorghum have withered.