Out of the Frying Pan

“The world dismisses them as economic migrants. The law treats them as criminals who show up at a nation’s borders uninvited. Prayers alone protect them on the journey across the merciless Sahara. But peel back the layers of their stories and you find a complex bundle of trouble and want that prompts the men and boys of West Africa to leave home, endure beatings and bribes, board a smuggler’s pickup truck and try to make a living far, far away.” And when you peel back those layers, what you’ll find is another example of the far-reaching impact of climate change. From the NYT: Heat, Hunger and War Force Africans onto a Road of Fire.