But they've become bitter enemies as climate change has seen the water bodies recede.

The immediate trigger was something that seemed banal: a cow owned by a Choa Arab herder had slipped into a pond dug by a Musgum fisherman and drowned.

The incident speaks to the stark reality of climate change in a region where temperatures are rising 1.5 times faster than the global average, and where 80 percent of farmland is now degraded

https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20230813-cameroon-s-climate-refugees-living-in-despair-lake-chad

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