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Sand dunes resulting from desertification have forced many residents to flee their communities in the local government area in Yobe State, and crop production also faces a threat.<\/em><\/p>\n Desertification has forced several communities in the Yusufari Local Government Area of Yobe State<\/a><\/strong> to flee their ancestral lands.<\/p>\n Baba Aji, the local government chairperson, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, North-east Nigeria, on Friday.<\/p>\n He said dunes…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Sand dunes resulting from desertification have forced many residents to flee their communities in the local government area in Yobe State, and crop production also faces a threat. Desertification has forced several communities in the Yusufari Local Government Area of Yobe State to flee their ancestral lands. Baba Aji, the local government chairperson, said this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7103,23623,23655,5167,4383,8013,257,4687,393,5092,4288,254,7503],"class_list":["post-179651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-communities","tag-desertification","tag-dunes","tag-flee","tag-force","tag-intensifies","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-official","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-yobe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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