WATCH: Security in the African continent is severly undermined by climate-related impacts such as droughts, floods and conflicts for resources. However, deep...
WATCH: What are the causes of violent extremism in Africa? UNDP Programme Coordinator, Mohammed Yahya, argues that young people are marginalized from the...
WATCH: Amina Mohammed discusses the linkages between Boko Haram and the drying of Lake Chad, as well as the challenges of urbanisation, rising sea levels and...
Rising population numbers and environmental degradation in rural South Africa accelerated rural-urban migration during the late 1980s. Increased competition for...
From 1991 to 1997 different Tuareg groups were active in an armed struggle against the Government of Niger, demanding greater political autonomy and development...
The Tuareg Rebellion against the government of Mali (1990-1995) was primarily motivated by the economic and political marginalisation of Mali’s northern Azawad...
Sahel droughts in the 1970s and 1980 contributed to the outbreak of Tuareg insurgencies in both Mali and Niger in the early 1990s. After a period of peace...
Piracy off the Somali coast significantly rose in the wake of severe drought and famine in 2008. Climatic changes attributed to global warming and shrinking...
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