The Sahel Uncertainty: Climate Change and Insurgency

Jul 28, 2019 | Paolo Zucconi
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The Sahel is increasingly affected by underdevelopment, endemic poverty, criminality, and insurgency. Climate change has recently extrapolated these problems by making essential resources scarce. This has multiplied conflicts between farming and herding communities and is forcing locals to migrate. Will climate change make the Sahel a powder keg of tension?