Central African Republic, 39, 47, 209

Chad, xii–xiii, 4–5, 22, 38–47, 50–55, 193–194, 209–210

China, 12–13, 17, 70, 170, 174, 178

cholera. See also Vibrio cholerae, xiv, 61, 128, 130, 132, 136–140, 144, 150

Civil-Military Assistance, 208

CJTF-HOA. See also Combined Joint Task Force—Horn of Arica, 58–59, 79–83

climate change. See also global warming, xii, xiv, 16–17, 25, 27, 30–31, 33, 48–51, 59, 67, 70, 141–148, 150–155, 157–166, 171, 173, 178–180, 202, 211, 245

climatic zones

arid, 29, 33, 68, 75, 97, 142, 144, 193

highland, 33, 69, 75–76, 144, 163

Mediterranean, 124, 205

semiarid, 33, 64, 67–68, 142, 144

tropical summer, 143

tropical wet, 143

Clinton, Hillary, 172

cocaine, 104–105

coffee, 189, 209

Cold War, 9, 15, 43, 52, 61, 101–102, 129, 168, 170, 172, 180

Collier, Paul, 209

coltan (the combination of Columbium and Tanalum), 186, 189, 209–210

Combined Joint Task Force—Horn of Africa. See also CJTF-HOA, 55, 58, 79, 208, 242

Community-Based Natural Resource Management. See also CBNRM, 219

Comoros, 207

conflict triggers, 192

Congolese diamond mine, 189

Congo River Basin Initiative, 225

conservancy. See also wildlife and park, 148

Conservation International (CI), 231

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), 230

Cote d’Ivoire, 97, 174, 209–210

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. See also CSIR, 120

CSIR. See also Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, xiii–xiv, 116–117, 120

Dabelko, Geoffrey. See also Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, xii, 199

Dakar, 18, 90–91, 94–95, 98–103, 106

Dar es Salaam, 167

Darfur, 41–42, 59–61, 64–66, 92, 129, 135, 178, 193–194, 206, 209–210, 242

Deby, Idriss, 40–41

deforestation, 17, 48–49, 66, 152–153, 164, 180, 192, 199

Democratic and Social Convention (CDS), 19

Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), 190