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The Compass: Climate Wars: Climate Wars: The Sahel

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Climate Wars: The Sahel

28/10/2020 GMT

Climate Wars

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How climate change is acting as a catalyst for conflict in Africa's Sahel region

Will Robson investigates how climate change is acting as the catalyst to migration, violent disputes over water and the growth of brutal armed extremists in Africa's Sahel region.

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report identified the Sahel as a ‘climate change hot spot’, a region where human security is particularly threatened by the effects of global warming.
 
Will Robson explores the area’s war-torn history and investigates how climate change is acting as the catalyst to migration, violent disputes over water and the growth of brutal armed extremists.  He hears from those caught in the middle of conflicts in Mali and the Lake Chad region and discovers how drought and rapid desertification are fanning the flames of violence.
 
Produced by Simon Jarvis and Tom Roseingrave. A Whistledown Production for the BBC World Service.

The Compass: Climate Wars

Examining the links between climate change and global conflicts.

In a five part series for the Compass, Major Will Robson investigates how climate change is fuelling conflict across the globe – from guerrilla raids on farmer-herders in Africa to a chilling new Cold War in the Arctic. 
He’ll be speaking to both climate and conflict experts to unravel the complicated threads that connect climatic changes, violence, war and global insecurity.  
 
Will Robson has served worldwide, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, he is a travel writer and journalist who has seen first hand the deadly effects of warfare, civil unrest and climate change.

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