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For centuries, nomadic herders and settled farmers in the Sahel zone have shared the same lands, trading and cooperating to sustain their livelihoods. However, as climate change accelerates desertification, fertile land becomes scarcer, and the Sahara's expansion has accelerated by 10% over the past century.
As resources dwindle, tensions escalate: herders stray into farms, driven by the need to find grazing for their animals, while farmers see their crops destroyed. The result is conflict that has persisted for thousands of years, with violent episodes recorded across cultures and histories, even echoing biblical stories like Cain and Abel.