World Day to Combat Desertification
Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Day to Combat Desertification on the seventeenth of June, due to the global dimension of this dangerous phenomenon which confirms the organization, on this day, on the importance and necessity of international cooperation and partnership to address this problem. This is because the first international effort to combat desertification to end the drought and hunger that swept the vast seacoast region in Africa in the period between 1968 ¬ 1974, and that he died, during which more than 200,000 people died and millions of animals.