Now we learn that they are dying at the fences which separate poverty from prosperity, or that they are left in the desert without food and water.
Furthermore, it is not a fair directive because it ignores the large uninhabited areas, climatic diversity, desert areas and arid areas.
As a result of this disaster, much of the land will go uncultivated and will be liable to end up as mere desert.
The big problem is that the desert is expanding and tropical forests are in bad shape, threatened by greed and crime.
Civil conflict, guerrilla warfare, military coups, religious and ethnic divisions, combined with a hostile, semi-desert environment and a problematic regional neighbourhood, have led to almost continuous unrest in the country.
An acute lack of humanitarian food aid and inadequate funding are threatening the old, isolated camps, which find it hard to withstand the savage desert climate.
If they were only wallowing in desert sand and dust, we would not be here discussing a conflict that is threatening to turn into a massive regional tragedy.
The situation in the north is different from that in the south, and different from the situation in those countries which have the problem of desert areas.
Other countries in the region must also be involved in this programme, since we will otherwise be faced with an ever-increasing number of related problems as the desert spreads south.
