In spite of repatriations, a significant number of Touareg refugees settled in Algeria, benefiting from tribal and family ties, the solidarity of Algerian Touaregs and the ‘blind-eye’ tolerance of the Algerian authorities, who were anxious to consolidate their role as intermediaries in the region and to prevent the conflict from expanding to the Algerian Touaregs. [...] The drought led to the breakdown of established systems of migration, and immediately afterwards large influxes of Touareg refugees took advantage of the tribal and family solidarity that linked them to the Touaregs in Algeria and Libya and the Toubous in Libya. [...] Both before and during the droughts, Tamanrasset was already benefiting from flows of migrants from the north of the country, sent by the State to supervise the town and its region and demonstrating the government’s desire to consolidate the town’s important role in the area. [...] This degeneration of the natural environment is reflected in the significant drop in the quantity and quality of sylvi- pastoral resources, the disruption of water regimes and the risk of extinction of some wild animal species. [...] PEODD is financed by French development partners, including the Departmental authorities of Essonne, the Association of Communes of Vallée de l’Orge Aval, the Water Syndicate of Hurepoix, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Commune of Itteville, and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Bitinkodj municipality, the President of Niger’s Special Programme, and the general public.
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