Climate change 'worsening Darfur conflict'

Climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, where droughts have provoked fighting over water sources, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon claims.

Climate change 'worsening Darfur conflict'

Climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, where droughts have provoked fighting over water sources, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon claims.

In a newspaper editorial for The Washington Post, he said: “Almost invariably, we discuss Darfur in a convenient military and political shorthand - an ethnic conflict pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers.

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