Climate Crisis: ECOWAS Parliamentarians Warn of ‘Security Time Bomb’ as Land, Water Shrink
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Michael Olugbode in Abuja
West Africa is facing a widening climate-driven crisis in which shrinking water resources, degraded farmland and changing weather patterns are increasingly fuelling competition for land, aggravating farmer-herder conflicts, displacing communities and deepening poverty, parliamentarians from the region have warned.
The warning came as lawmakers at the Second 2026 Parliamentary Seminar of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Accra, Ghana, examin
West Africa is facing a widening climate-driven crisis in which shrinking water resources, degraded farmland and changing weather patterns are increasingly fuelling competition for land, aggravating farmer-herder conflicts, displacing communities and deepening poverty, parliamentarians from the region have warned.
The warning came as lawmakers at the Second 2026 Parliamentary Seminar of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Accra, Ghana, examin
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