Central Mali is plagued by land disputes and contested grazing and watering rights, underestimated by the international community. Yet, local disputes over resources are not merely individual matters, but destabilising factors for entire communities.

Japan's Foreign Ministry sees climate change as a severe threat to peace and security, according to Tomoaki Ishigaki, Director of Climate Change Division

Interview with the independent conflict adviser Chitra Nagarajan about the region's future at the margin of the Planetary Security Conference 2017.

In the context of the civil war with no end in sight in South Sudan, this report outlines how a donor-led shift from the current total reliance on diesel to renewable energy can deliver short-term humanitarian cost savings while creating a longer-term building block for peace in the form of a clean energy infrastructure.