The Briefing Room
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Climate change not the key driver of human conflict and displacement in East Africa
April 24, 2018, University College London
Total East African conflict, governance and economics graph. Credit: Mark Maslin, UCL
Over the last 50 years climate change has not been the key driver of the human displacement or conflict in East Africa, rather it is politics and poverty, according to new research by UCL.
Human displacement refers to the total number of forcibly displaced people, and includes internally displaced people - the largest group represented - and refugees, those forced to across international borders.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-04-climate-key-driver-human-conflict.html#jCp