Climate Change Could be Final Straw for the Himba
Climate change and El Niño have led to widespread drought across southern Africa. Remote tribal communities in Namibia are having to adapt their way of life to survive, as Luke Tredget reports.
When we landed in the Namibian capital city, Windhoek, it was hard to imagine we were in a country where the government had recently declared a state of emergency.
We encountered busy supermarkets, chain cafes, and all the vestiges of an advanced economy that you’d expect from a country that spent decades as a province of neighbouring South Africa.
But, as with so many places in Africa, it is a different story when you leave the capital.
Namibia is a vast and empty land – only Mongolia and Greenland have fewer people per square mile. After a ten-hour drive north, it feels like you are not only in a different country, but on a different planet.
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