Experts: Darfur Faces Environment Crisis

By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Environment

(AP) -- Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land. Now, experts fear the war and its refugee crisis are making the environment even worse, leaving the land increasingly uninhabitable and intensifying tensions with no end to the drought in sight.

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