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Climate change is likely to worsen conflicts in fragile and war-torn states, resulting in higher death rates and greatly reduced GDP, an International Monetary Fund report says. The World Bank each year revises a list of countries classed as “fragile and conflict-afflicted states”, of which there are currently 39 – 21 of them in Africa. […]