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Ethiopia: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Lead
Jun 10, 2025
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Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse
Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse (VSF-Suisse) is a politically and religiously neutral humanitarian and development organisation with its headquarters in Berne, Switzerland, and country offices in…
Mehmet Altingoz
Environmental Engineer
Türkiye’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Turkey
Jun 10, 2025
Mehmet Altingoz is an environmental engineer and water policy expert dedicated to fostering cooperation over shared waters in regions of conflict. Having served in the…
UK: Researcher: Climate, Militaries and Conflicts
Jun 9, 2025
Conflict and Environment Observatory
CEOBS provides a voice for our environment – and those who depend upon it – when it faces harm from armed conflicts and military activities.…
Call for Applications: Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding Training (Deadline: June 15, 2025)
Jun 9, 2025
Geneva Water Hub
Join the Geneva Water Hub in Geneva from September 29 to October 3, 2025, for a transformative training course on Law, Policy and Science in…
Rivers as the New Frontlines of Geopolitics
Jun 8, 2025
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Samirul Ariff Othman
We are used to thinking of power grids, trade routes, and semiconductor fabs as the terrain of 21st-century power competition. But now add rivers—yes, rivers—to…
Sudan: Cholera Outbreak Worsens with 1,000 Daily Cases in Sudan
Jun 8, 2025
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Lukman Abdulmalik
The Star
Sudan is grappling with a fast-spreading cholera outbreak, with health officials reporting over 1,000 new cases daily in the capital, Khartoum. The surge in infections…
Afghanistan: Kabul at Risk of Becoming First Modern City to Run out of Water, Report Warns
Jun 7, 2025
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Mariam Amini
Guardian
Kabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, experts have warned. Water levels within Kabul’s aquifers have dropped by up…
Key Changes to the DRC Mining Code: A New Era for Investors and National Development
Jun 6, 2025
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Amani Cibambo
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to some of the world’s richest deposits of cobalt, copper, and other critical minerals, enacted major revisions to…
Minerals for Recognition: The Taliban’s Shadow Diplomacy
Jun 6, 2025
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Islomkhon Gafarov
Since the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan’s mineral and extractive industries have assumed growing strategic importance in the broader context of sustaining the country’s fragile…
Rwanda/DRC: Hidden Invasion: Rwanda's Covert War in the Congo
Jun 6, 2025
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Michela Wrong
NBC News
Leaked reports, satellite images and interviews reveal the extent of Rwanda's shadow war in the Congo, as the US tries to strike a deal for…
Securing Women’s Land Rights: A Pathway to Food Security
Jun 5, 2025
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Sunaina Kumar
Observer Research Foundation
Despite playing a central role in food systems, women lack secure land rights in more than half of all countries, posing serious implications for food…
Nepal: Centring Women’s Knowledge and Leadership in Nepal’s Climate Response
Jun 5, 2025
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Manjeeta Gurung
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
Indira Dhital, a local woman leader from Kavre, central Nepal, recently recited this poem at the culmination of a UN Women project focused on building…
Sierra Leone Charts a New Diamond Story
Jun 5, 2025
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Jill Newman
Sierra Leone is historically rich in diamond deposits. They are found largely in alluvial mines, where miners sift through layers of mud and gravel for…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Erbil Rejects Oil Smuggling Accusations as Tensions with Baghdad Escalate
Jun 5, 2025
Rudaw
The Kurdistan Region’s natural resources ministry on Thursday rejected accusations by Iraq’s oil ministry of smuggling crude and failing to cooperate on oil handover. It…
South Sudan: South Sudan Imposes Emergency as Herder Clashes Kill Hundreds
Jun 5, 2025
Agence France-Presse
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Thursday declared a state of emergency in areas hit by deadly inter-communal clashes over cattle raids that have killed…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Erbil-Baghdad Tensions Escalate over Oil Production
Jun 5, 2025
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Wladimir van Wilgenburg
S&P Global Commodity Insights
The Iraqi Federal Ministry of Oil called on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to immediately hand over regional oil production on June 5, accusing the…
Afghanistan: UN Warns: Afghanistan’s Water Crisis and Lack of Green Spaces Threaten Lives
Jun 4, 2025
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has issued a warning regarding environmental degradation and the consequences of climate change in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Plundering Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: Global Silence and Environmental Destruction
Jun 4, 2025
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Ahmad Tamim Azimi
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
Afghanistan is a land rich in underground resources—an abundance that, in terms of value and diversity, could form the backbone of its national economy and…
New UN Review Highlights Youth Role in Climate, Peace, and Security
Jun 4, 2025
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Tara Abhasakun
Peace News
Across the globe, 698 million young people between the ages of 15 and 35 live in fragile and conflict-affected settings, according to the United Nations…
Canada: Assembly of First Nations Releases 2025 Progress Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice, Highlighting Human Trafficking Crisis
Jun 3, 2025
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The Assembly of First Nations
The Assembly of First Nations
(June 3, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – On the sixth anniversary of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered…
Colombia: Peace Has Long Been Elusive in Rural Colombia - Black Women’s Community Groups Try to Bring It Closer Each Day
Jun 3, 2025
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Tania Lizarazo
MSN
It’s been almost nine years since Colombia celebrated a landmark peace agreement between one guerrilla group and the government, and three years since President Gustavo Petro vowed “total…
Liberia: RICCE Program Manager Urges Passage of Oil Palm Development Bill to Empower Women and Communities
Jun 3, 2025
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GNNLiberia
GNNLiberia
The Program Manager of the Rural Integrated Center for Community Empowerment (RICCE), Madam Renee N. Gibson, has called for the submission and passage of the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: 'Oil Law Key to Ending Baghdad-Erbil Standoff,' Says Iraq's Ruling Shiite Bloc
Jun 3, 2025
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Kamaran Aziz
Kurdistan24
Iraq’s Coordination Framework urged swift passage of the stalled Oil and Gas Law to resolve Erbil-Baghdad disputes and called for constitutional solutions to the Kurdistan…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal Sparks Water Security Concerns in Central Asia
Jun 3, 2025
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Sadokat Jalolova
Times of Central Asia
Afghanistan is rapidly advancing construction of the Qosh Tepa Canal, a large-scale water infrastructure project in the north of the country that could have far-reaching…
Global Survey of Women Building Peace and Security
Jun 2, 2025
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Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security is working to build a data set of information about the work of women peacebuilders around the world…
Protecting the Environment Is Protecting Civilians, Key Take-aways
Jun 2, 2025
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PAX
In conflict zones across the globe, civilians continue to suffer the devastating environmental consequences of armed conflicts, which directly and indirectly affect their health, safety,…
Give Peace a Chance? Why Sustainability Requires More Than Stability
Jun 2, 2025
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Richard Marcantonio
Conflict and environmental risks are both on the rise around the world, and they’re often connected in complex ways. In the past five years, the…
Colombia: Aiming a Blow at Narcos, Colombia Pays Farmers to Uproot Coca
Jun 2, 2025
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David Salazar
Agence France-Presse
With cocaine production at an all-time high, Colombia's government is testing a pacific approach to its narcotics problem: paying farmers to uproot crops of coca,…
Afghanistan: Taliban Award Mining Contracts Worth over $2.6 Billion in Five Months
Jun 2, 2025
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Yasin Shayan
Amu TV
Taliban have awarded four major mining contracts valued at approximately 180 billion Afghanis (about $2.6 billion) over the past five months, according to a review…
Nigeria: Nigeria Bets on Farming-Based Reintegration Plan to Tackle Rural Insecurity
Jun 2, 2025
Ecofin Agency
The Nigerian government is stepping up efforts to curb insecurity by shifting part of its strategy away from the battlefield and toward the farm. On…