Hi all

like someone said in another thread, it takes an outsider to see our own sleeplessnesses that we have and will commit and beyond...has anybody considered the latest community skirmishes in terms of change in rainfal patterns and temperatures?

i am also yet to hear any African leader drawing any relationship between the global warming or climate change monster with the rise in armed conflicts amongst communities which were once living together peacefully...

please see the link below for a case study:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-climate-conflict-1127-nov29,0,5953619.story

if this case study is something to go by, then the continent has a disaster or a full scale war in waiting...unless of course the fast vanishing water resource is restored and heavily guarded...

Conflicts have been happening for centuries. Most of africa (especially sub-saharan) does not have a written history thus we can't refer back to the olden days.

We do not know for sure why Great Zimbabwe collapsed but we have read about Shaka Zulu. So conflicts are nothing new.

@ vitu,

the past conflicts of upto mid 1900s have all been about superiority and other natural resources apart from water...in kenyas case cattle rastling, food, women etc...

but now things are completely different...it is either we share that water so that i don't die of thirst or i take it by force or we die both of us...that is the newest stance for most of the communities mostly in the semi-arid areas...good examples, turkana versus samburus in baragoi areas, pokots versus samburus in paka region, redile versus oromas in north eastern and new entrants maasai versus kalenjin in transmara...and the list will grow bigger and bigger...