Petey of Lone Tree
Jedi
Complete article at http://news(dot)bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6288445.stm"Ciroma Mohammed is standing on the spot he says was once occupied by his house in north-east Nigeria.
"We lose houses to the desert every year," he says from the village of Bulamadu in Yobe State.
"Almost all the villagers in this dusty arid region say they have lost homes and farms to the Sahara Desert which is expanding southwards."