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Protecting Niger’s Desert Salt Pans

Source
Inter Press Service News Agency

Publication Date
2013-05-15

BILMA, Niger, May 15 2013 (IPS) - The Bilma community has mined the salt pans in the massive Ténéré desert region in northern Niger for centuries. But the threat of the ever-encroaching desert has become a real concern as locals here struggle to cope with a decline in salt prices

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