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Many of Africa's conflicts can be explained as tinderboxes that had long been waiting for a spark. In northern Kenya, Turkana tribes and armed gangs murder and rob each other in a cycle of violence fuelled by eight years of drought. In Rwanda, there is an increasing consensus that Africa's other recent genocide is at least partly understood as a contest between too many people on too little cultivable land. The U.N. Development Program predicted as long ago as November 1999 that one in two Africans would face water shortages by 2025, and said it expected violent flashpoints...
...working within the existing Sharia framework, a system common in northern Nigeria, Ibrahim’s work has set important precedent for Sharia law, Elkins said...
...into the area. But we really are stretched to the limit. We are robbing Peter to pay Paul. South Kivu [a province of Congo] is tense. So is Ituri [another province in the country], and we have the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that originated in northern Uganda] in the northeast. We are doing short-term reinforcements, but we simply do not have an effective rapid-reaction force...
...researchers’ analysis of peat bogs in northern Manitoba found that a temperature increase of four degrees Celsius—a conservative estimate of future warming—would release 40 percent of stored carbon in shallow peat bogs and up to 86 percent of carbon in deeper bogs, further contributing to the buildup of greenhouse gases...
Moorcroft said he hopes to study further the potential for fires in northern bogs affected by climate change, particularly because this study predicted that carbon decomposition would soon rise rapidly, further emphasizing the importance of immediate action in mitigating global warming...