Iraqis displaced by climate change fall into poverty

Nasiriyah, Iraq (AFP) Nov 29, 2023

For the past decade, Nasser Jabbar and his children have lived in a rundown house built of grey concrete blocks at a shantytown in southern Iraq. Drought chased the father of 10 out of the countryside, where he had been a herder and farmer, and into a life of unemployment and urban poverty. "We lost the land and we lost the water," said the father in his 40s, wearing a traditional white