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Climate War in the Sahel? Pastoral Insecurity in West Africa Is Not What It Seems

Posted: 29 Nov 2020 09:01 PM PST

As violence in Mali and Burkina Faso reached a ten-year high this year, the West African Sahel appears to be experiencing the perfect storm of climate stress, resource degradation, and violent extremism. At the center of that storm, one finds livestock herders—pastoralists—who are both vulnerable to environmental changes in the region, and historically marginalized from politics. Conflict […] Related posts: Urban Elites' Livestock Exacerbate Herder-Farmer Tensions in Africa's Sudano-Sahel...

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