The sweeping famine ravaging a large section of Niger Republic, has not changed much of Niger Republic/Nigeria border communities. Neither has it elicited any significant response among them in spite of age-old trans-border communal relationships.
There is nothing strikingly unusual in some of the communities along the Nigerian side of the Nigeria/Niger Republic border except the fact that life goes on as usual, in sharp contrast to high expectations for grave ripple effects of the famine reportedly rampaging their neighbouring communi-ties just a few kilometres across the border in Niger Republic.
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