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South Sudan: How Climate and Water Stress Worsen Conflict

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Stockholm -Social and political tensions fuelled by climate change have yet to translate into international military confrontations, but local conflicts are heating up due to pressures such as drought and water scarcity, officials and researchers said on Wednesday. via LATEST NEWS

South-South Governors Vow To Confront Buhari Over NDDC Appointments

  State governors in Nigeria’s South-South region have vowed to confront President Muhammadu Buhari over the lopsided composition of the board of Niger Delta Development Commission. Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, who addressed journalists at the end of an emergency meeting of the nine oil producing states, said the governors would meet the President to review the appointments. The meeting was held on Thursday night in Abuja at the Bayelsa State Governor’s lodge, Maitama. Dickson said, “We are all concerned about the governance process within that critical development agency. “We are aware of the general dissatisfaction in the region and other states. We are also concerned about the recent appointments that have been made and arising from all of these, we want to use this opportunity to call for calm in all our states and across the region. “We intend as a body to have audience with President Buhari in no distance time to discuss in greater det...