How climate change helps African jihadism | Exclusive interview with Reza Pakravan

Climate change is fueling jihadism in the Sahel region of Africa.

That’s the claim of documentary filmmaker Reza Pakravan who spent nearly four months exploring this area - which stretches across Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia along the southern edge of the Sahara desert and includes troubled countries such as Mali, Chad and Niger - for his new series The World's Most Dangerous Borders.

In this clip, he explains to RT’s Andrew Dickens how jihadist groups like Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and Isis feed on the devastation, conflict and desperation caused by the spread of the Sahara.

Read Dickens’s interview with Pakravan at RT.com

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