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![[Mauritania] Sadjo Hamdy has two just precious cows left. Once he had a dozen, but several years of drought followed by a plague of locusts have destroyed his sorghum crop and grazing land in Mauritania. February 2005.](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/responsive_large_2x/public/images/200521026.jpg.webp?itok=InjSED1_ "Desperate measures might be necessary for Hamdy to get through the next eight months")
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