Environmental research

For 10 years, Kirundo Province in general and the common Bugabira in particular is experiencing a severe drought. Hunger lurking, while drinking water is sold at the price of gold and wood is scarce. For a decade, the rains have become insufficient and irregular. Over the past five years, it only rained four months instead of nine in the communes of Busoni and Bugabira and in this region, the sandy soil and dry heaves at the slightest breath of wind. The drinking water sources for the people also dried up. Water is scarce and has become an object of commerce. Firewood has also become a rare and expensive commodity. Only a few small trees grow Bugabira and there in the fields. The vast plantations, which formerly constituted one of the wonders of the region were gradually cleared by the inhabitants. Plants vegetatively long having disappeared, the region

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