Climate change brings conflict, Senegal leader warns

Climate change brings conflict, Senegal leader warns United Nations, United States (AFP) April 23, 2016 - Senegal's President Macky Sall sees a link between climate change and security, in particular when it comes to the jihadist threat in the Sahel. "Global warming exacerbates receding water levels... and when water becomes scarce there are fewer agricultural lands and conflict begins," Sall told AFP in an interview after signing the Paris climate deal at the United Nations. "In the Sahel, ... more

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