In Niger, there are four main ethnic groups, namely the Hausa, Djerma Songhai, Tuareg and Pall

Of the four ethnic groups, the Hausa are the largest in the country, but unlike the Han Chinese who make up more than 90 percent, the Hausa make up only about 55 percent of Niger's population. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Tuareg, the third largest ethnic group, accounts for about 9.3 per cent of the population and are nomadic people, mainly in the northern part of Niger.

In the area north of the city of Agadez, several oases and near the Gobi Desert are filled with these people.

This people are descendants of the Berbers of North Africa, and they do not have good relations with other peoples in West Africa, mainly because they were invaders and were previously participants in the slave trade.

The Gold Coast of Africa is just in the Gulf of Guinea near Nigeria in the south, and historically, Europeans bought more than 100 million black slaves from African tribes for the slave trade, of which more than ninety percent died, thus causing a massive blood loss on the African continent and becoming a shame for Africans.

And in these trades, the slave trade countries, such as the countries of Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire, were hateful to Africans, but they were not as hated by the Africans who still lived in Africa and participated in the slave trade.

The European colonizers had a long process of colonizing Africa, sometimes using force to directly capture blacks as slaves, and sometimes instigating wars between local tribes, selling them weapons and providing support to help them expand their territory in exchange for black slaves in their hands.

As a result, the continent was torn apart, and there was no unified empire or culture that was easily divided, and among those who were involved in the slave trade were the Tuaregs.

The Hausa, the largest ethnic group in Niger, is black, while the Tuareg are brown, and there are great differences in skin color and culture, so the contradiction is naturally insignificant.

There is a saying that there is strength in numbers, as if it was said by a great man, I don't know if Africans have heard of it.

But this was confirmed in Niger, where the Hausa were outnumbered, more than five times as large as the Tuaregs, and they quickly drove the Tuaregs north with their numerical advantage.

Everyone knows what the north of Niger is, there is desert everywhere, there is almost no land suitable for farming, and you can only live by grazing, but grazing in these fragile deserts and the Gobi region is tantamount to digging your own grave, the plants here are very precious, a little bit eaten by animals, the less plants, the more serious the soil erosion, the more serious the desertification, and the more serious the environmental problems it brings.

In recent years, the trend of desertification in Niger has been very serious, and it has reached the level of threatening national security.

Therefore, the government of Niger has started to implement desertification prevention and control actions, which is also the opportunity to cooperate with the United Nations Environment Programme.

However, the promotion of sand prevention and fixation seems to be for the good of the country's future, but it directly harms the interests of the Tuareg people.

What are you kidding, you are going to plant trees in the desert, that's as you please, but you don't allow us to continue grazing, so what do we live on?

So this kind of policy was naturally resisted by the northerners, and the reasons of the Hausa people in power are also very high-sounding, your livestock did not eat a plant, all contribute to the acceleration of the desertification of the land, but also to accelerate the demise of Niger, desertification prevention and control is the basic national policy, is to maintain the country's prosperity and stability of a century-old plan, you do not work to contribute, even if you do not work, but still everywhere obstruct this kind of thing related to the survival of the people of the whole country, what is the intention?

No one can stand this big hat buttoned down, the number of Hausa people is already large, and several other ethnic groups also live in the south, they don't want their land to become a desert one day, so their attitude towards the government is supportive.

The Tuareg people were not very popular in China, but at this time, they were suppressed in all directions, and they had no choice, their arms couldn't twist their thighs, so they had to back down.

The Hausa also pretended to be generous, expressing their willingness to accept the Tuareg people to settle south, the nomads are obviously not suitable for farming, which is basically common sense, and although the area of Niger is not small, the land suitable for cultivation is very scarce, there are 20 million people in the country, these people are basically in the south, although the Tuareg people have less than 2 million people, but it is definitely impossible to settle so many people at once.

As a result, many people were forced into the city and became the lowest level of the city, they had no land, they lost their livestock, Niger had no welfare policy, they could not receive relief, their lives did not skyrocket, they had no food to eat, they were thirsty and had no water to drink, they had no money to see a doctor when they were sick, and their lives were very difficult.

And in this way, many people were dissatisfied, and with dissatisfaction with the country and the Hausa people, they returned to the solid land of the north, and these people became famous horse thieves in the north.

They were nomads, skilled horsemen, and accustomed to a life of wandering, so it was difficult to track down the north as they roamed, while Niger's army was poor, the police force was even less capable, and there was little to be done about these horse thieves in the sparsely populated north.

Before this, when he came here with Denise on the first day, Lin Quan had encountered a group of horse thieves, and it was also that time that he met Zhao Cheng, and it was Zhao Cheng who saved his life at that time.

He hadn't seen a horse thief since, and as the farm was progressing well, he had all but forgotten about it.

It's just that sometimes, it's not that you forget, he won't show up.

In the past few days, Lin Quan and the workers of the farm can often see people riding horses or camels in the distance, looking at the farm from a distance, perhaps because they find that there are a lot of people in the farm, so they can't judge whether these people have weapons or not, so they don't come to attack directly.

But Lin Quan began to worry, these guys were watching from a distance, obviously stepping on the spot, the reason why they hadn't made a move yet, they must be waiting for the opportunity, and once the opportunity they were waiting for came, they would definitely make a move.

What should I do on my side?

Lin Quan was a little worried, he had already taken out the rifle he had hidden before, loaded it with bullets and put it under the bed, if the horse thief hit, he could fight back at any time, but he had never used a gun, and it was hard to say whether he could shoot or not, let alone say what marksmanship.

And not a single one of the fifty workers had any weapons, and although there were many of them, there was absolutely no power to resist!