West Africa: NGO Raises Alarm in Sahel As Conflict, Climate Change Claim More Victims

said in its report on the Sahel region.

The report said temperatures are rising 1.5 times faster than the rest of the world with an increase of between two and 4.3 degrees Celsius projected by 2080., and rainfall more intense and erratic, meaning droughts and floods are set to intensify, it said. The report placed blame on French colonial-era authorities, who"neglected" developing peripheral areas and introduced disruptive border controls, as well as post-independence governments.

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