{"id":15775,"date":"2026-05-02T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/there-are-snakes-but-we-attack-the-fires-refugees-fight-flames-in-the-sahara-global-development\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:40:08","slug":"there-are-snakes-but-we-attack-the-fires-refugees-fight-flames-in-the-sahara-global-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/there-are-snakes-but-we-attack-the-fires-refugees-fight-flames-in-the-sahara-global-development\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There are snakes \u2013 but we attack the fires\u2019: refugees fight flames in the Sahara | Global development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:500\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">A<\/span>hmedou Ould Boukhary knows he can get the call at any time, day or night from the local authorities in Bassikounou, a town in the south-east of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mauritania\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mauritania<\/a>. Someone has spotted a fire in one of the villages perched on the edge of the Sahara. How soon can he and his men be there?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Boukhary leads the Brigade Anti-Feu \u2013 the Anti-Fire Brigade \u2013 a volunteer force of about 500 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/08\/mali-refugee-camps-mauritania-wagner-conflict-drives-thousands-across-border\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malian refugees living in M\u2019bera camp<\/a>, towards the border with Mali, 11 miles (18km) from the town. When the call comes, teams of between 50 and 70 men pack themselves into the backs of pickup trucks and zoom out of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/08\/fires-mali-refugees-fight-flames-sahara-mauritania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmedou Ould Boukhary knows he can get the call at any time, day or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1147,1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mauritania","category-1212"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}