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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was
triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be
on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.

"The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in
part from climate change," Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column.

UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the
past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures
disrupted monsoons.

"This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some
degree, from man-made global warming," the South Korean diplomat wrote.

"It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the
drought," Ban said in the Washington daily.

When Darfur's land was rich, he said, black farmers welcomed Arab
herders and shared their water, he said.

With the drought, however, farmers fenced in their land to prevent
overgrazing.

"For the first time in memory, there was no longer enough food and water
for all. Fighting broke out," he said.

A UN peacekeeping force may stop the fighting, he said, and more than
two million people may return to rebuilt homes in safe villages.

"But what to do about the essential dilemma: the fact that there's no
longer enough good land to go around?"

"Any real solution to Darfur's troubles involves sustained economic
development," perhaps using new technologies, genetically modified
grains or irrigation, while bettering health, education and sanitation,
he said.

Sudan is not the only country with such problems, Ban said, and pointed
to Somalia, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso as African countries with "food
and water insecurity."

Khartoum agreed this week to accept 23,000 UN and African Union
peacekeepers after four years of fighting, which has killed at least
200,000 people.

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was
triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be
on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.
"The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in
part from climate change," Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column.

UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the
past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures
disrupted monsoons.

"This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some
degree, from man-made global warming," the South Korean diplomat wrote.

"It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the
drought," Ban said in the Washington daily.

When Darfur's land was rich, he said, black farmers welcomed Arab
herders and shared their water, he said.

With the drought, however, farmers fenced in their land to prevent
overgrazing.

"For the first time in memory, there was no longer enough food and water
for all. Fighting broke out," he said.

A UN peacekeeping force may stop the fighting, he said, and more than
two million people may return to rebuilt homes in safe villages.

"But what to do about the essential dilemma: the fact that there's no
longer enough good land to go around?"

"Any real solution to Darfur's troubles involves sustained economic
development," perhaps using new technologies, genetically modified
grains or irrigation, while bettering health, education and sanitation,
he said.

Sudan is not the only country with such problems, Ban said, and pointed
to Somalia, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso as African countries with "food
and water insecurity."

Khartoum agreed this week to accept 23,000 UN and African Union
peacekeepers after four years of fighting, which has killed at least
200,000 people.