Geographical analysis of a civil war in the Sahel:
Disciplines
Article
French
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Today’s Darfur conflict is deeply rooted in the increasing competition for scarce land and water resources that began in the 1980s between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers. Rising tensions have been stoked by the central government in Khartoum. Officials are confronted with increasing demands by a marginalized population from peripheral regions of Sudan and seek to keep their monopoly on power trough a manipulation of fluctuant identity references.