Climate shifts 'not to blame' for African civil wars

[TheTardis]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-1120...

Thats good then, meh....

[turbobloke]

Blimey. There will be a tipping point (in opinion) along soon to correct that heresy against doctrine.

[Jasandjules]

"Instead, it says, traditional factors - such as poverty and social tensions - were often the main factors behind the outbreak of conflicts."

Nothing to do with Tribal conflicts then?!?!

[Jinx]

Does that mean Al Gore will be stripped of his Nobel peace prize then?

[Hugo a Gogo]

social tensions = tribal conflicts I would have thought

bit simplistic to imagine that wars are fought simply because "tribe b don't like tribe a" though, usually there's some money/mineral rights etc involved

[Engineer1]

Not necessarily, African countries aren't necessarily that old or traditional, many are based on how far inland one or other European country could get before bumping into another finding a barrier to further travel or just going that'll do. This means in some cases groups that would have been a tribal country being spread over several countries.