Since 1990, more than 2.5 million people have died as a direct or indirect result of civil conflict in Africa. One of the causes of conflict, which increasingly involves clashes between predominantly Muslim herding and Christian farming communities, may well have been competition over agricultural resources, brought on by the hotter, drier conditions in the last 30 years.
Study links low rainfall to increased conflict between African pastoralists and farmers
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