Ben Taub On Lake Chad's Complex Humanitarian Crisis

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 1, 2017

New Yorker staff writer Ben Taub joins us to discuss his latest article, "Lake Chad: The World’s Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster." He explores how the Lake Chad region of Africa has fallen into disarray through a combination of climate change, violent extremism, food insecurity, population explosion, disease, poverty, weak statehood and corruption. 

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