In the Libyan village of Kabaw in the Nafusa Mountains, M'hamed Maakaf waters an ailing fig tree as climate change pushes villagers to forsake lands and livestock. Kabaw, like many villages in the Nafusa Mountains, is primarily inhabited by Amazigh people, a non-Arab minority. A tanker delivers water drawn from a well, to an inhabitant of the Libyan village of Kabao in the Nafusa mountains on May 26, 2024. Sheep graze in an arid field in the Libyan village of Kabao in the Nafusa mountains on May 26, 2024. "Water scarcity is one of the greatest emerging threats facing Libya," the UN Development Program said in a study.
