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Kenya: Turkana’s Trailblazers: The Women Redefining Leadership on Oil-Rich Land

Oct 14, 2025 | Moraa Obiria
Daily Nation

What you need to know: Two Turkana women, Veronica Natesiro and Jane Atabo, are breaking barriers by leading their community’s land governance in Lokichar.Through the Community…

Colombia: IOM and EU Launch Initiative to Strengthen Inclusive Disaster Preparedness in Latin America

Oct 13, 2025
International Organization for Migration

Bogotá, Colombia, 13 October 2025 – As climate-related disasters intensify across Latin America, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union have launched Prepárate+,…

Liberia: Community Seizes Loggers’ Equipment in Bassa

Oct 13, 2025 | Esau J. Farr
The Daylight

Local leaders in a Grand Bassa community forest have seized a logging company’s equipment for failing to pay their benefits.

Egypt/Ethiopia: Egypt's President Al-Sisi Issues Stern Warning to Ethiopia over Nile Dam Dispute, Vows to Protect Water Security

Oct 13, 2025
Radio Dalsan

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has issued a stark warning to Ethiopia, accusing it of causing "significant harm" to downstream nations through its management of…

Afghanistan/Pakistan: Afghanistan, Pakistan Say Their Forces Killed Dozens in Border Clashes

Oct 12, 2025
Agence France-Presse

Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Sunday they killed dozens of each other’s troops during a night of heavy border clashes between the two countries. Afghanistan’s…

Iraq: Iraq’s Oil Revenues Fall Short of Covering State Spending

Oct 11, 2025
Shafaq News

Iraq’s oil income no longer covers the government’s monthly expenses, the economic observatory ECO Iraq warned on Saturday, forecasting that Brent crude could drop to…

Iraq: Iraq’s 2025 Gas Pivot: Can Baghdad Turn Flares into Fuel?

Oct 10, 2025
Shafaq News

Iraq has moved aggressively in 2025 to overhaul its gas sector—pushing capture projects, sealing multi-billion-dollar partnerships, and tying the effort to electricity security and an…

Liberia: A Cacao Rush Drives ‘Alarming’ Deforestation in Liberia

Oct 10, 2025 | Ashoka Mukpo
Mongabay

A rush to plant cacao in southeastern Liberia is destroying large tracts of rainforest. According to satellite data as well as interviews with local environmental…

Afghanistan: Afghan Farmers Battle Drought amid Fragile Peace

Oct 8, 2025
Xinhua

In the sturdy stillness of Wardak Province, just 35 km west of Kabul, an unrelenting specter has replaced the echoes of two decades of war.…

Liberia: Unmasking Waste and Abuse of Forest Resources in Liberia: The Case of Abandoned Logs

Oct 6, 2025 | Junior B. Kesselee
FrontPage Africa

In the deep rainforests of Liberia, thousands of felled logs lie rotting in company’s yards, swamps, and roadside fields—harvested but never exported, valued but never…

Iraq: Iraq’s Vote Pits Oil Wealth against Superpower Rivalry

Oct 6, 2025 | Simon Watkins
Oilprice.com

Iraq’s 11 November parliamentary elections could mark the key turning point in the country’s history since the ousting of former president Saddam Hussein in April…

Sudan/South Sudan: Juba, Port Sudan Agree to Protect Oil Facilities, Pipeline Stations

Oct 6, 2025
Xinhua

Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to protect oil facilities and the central stations of the pipelines transporting Juba's oil to Port Sudan on the…

Liberia: Supreme Court Revives Liberia’s $11.5 Million Diamond Scandal, Sending Ex-Weah Officials back to Civil Court

Oct 6, 2025 | Amos Harris
Global News Network Liberia

The mystery surrounding Liberia’s controversial 53.34-carat diamond, valued at over $11.5 million, has dramatically resurfaced at the Temple of Justice. The Supreme Court has instructed…

Colombia: Petro’s Agrarian Reform Drives Surge in Colombia’s Food Production

Oct 6, 2025 | Josep Freixes
Colombia One

The agrarian reform implemented by the government of President Gustavo Petro has boosted food production in Colombia, where agriculture remains an important part of the…

Afghanistan/Iran: Taliban Express Readiness to Settle Water Dispute with Iran

Oct 5, 2025
Afghanistan International

Iranian media reported that Taliban officials have expressed readiness to resolve the long-standing water rights dispute with Iran during a meeting with the acting head…

Afghanistan: Energy Conservation: The Key to Lifting Afghanistan out of Darkness and Poverty

Oct 5, 2025 | Kazim Homayoun
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

In today’s Afghanistan, energy conservation is not merely an environmental slogan; it is an economic, social, and security necessity. A country that imports most of…

Egypt/Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Egypt Trade Accusations over GERD’s Role in Nile Floods

Oct 4, 2025
Sudan Tribune

Ethiopia and Egypt have exchanged sharp accusations over the management of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), with each country blaming the other for recent…

DRC: The Resource War: How Minerals Fuel the Conflict in Congo

Oct 4, 2025 | Dragos Alexandru Ionita
Modern Diplomacy

In Central Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo is once again facing an escalating conflict between the government forces and the March 23 rebel movement.…

Land/Food Security: Experts Warn: Land Rights Disputes Hurt Food Security

Oct 4, 2025 | Patricia Tembo
Food For Mzansi

The Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (CoRE-SFS), hosted by the University of Pretoria, recently held a webinar series tackling key themes…

DRC: Beans that Break the Cycle: Food, Freedom and Female Power in DRC

Oct 3, 2025 | Bola Amoke Awotide, Julie Ntawinja, Yohane Chideya, Hosny Dunia, Richard Kataliko, Lucky Kalisya, and Jean Claude Rubyogo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

In eastern DRC, women are reclaiming land through the B4WE project, using biofortified beans to fight malnutrition, gain economic independence, and foster peace. Farming is…

Afghanistan: Kabul Residents Face Severe Water Shortages, Call for Urgent Action

Oct 3, 2025
Asian News International

Residents of Kabul's District 5 have raised alarm over a worsening water crisis, complaining that they lack daily access to clean drinking water.

Sri Lanka: Landmark UN Study Links Climate Change, Gender, and Security Risks in Sri Lanka

Oct 2, 2025 | UNDP
Newswire

The United Nations launched a landmark study on how climate change, gender and security in Sri Lanka are interconnected. Commissioned by the Joint UN Development…

Colombia: Victims of Colombian Conflict Given Land from Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Ranch

Oct 2, 2025 | James Reynolds

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’.

President Gustavo Petro…

Liberia: Liberia Awards Customary Land Deeds to Communities

Oct 2, 2025
Global News Network Liberia

The historic event marked the official recognition of land ownership for 23 communities that have completed the Confirmation Survey and Customary Land Formalization (CLF) process.…

Iraq: Iraq Activates Contract with BP to Develop Kirkuk Oilfields, Initial Target of 328,000 bpd

Oct 2, 2025
Asharq Al Awsat

Iraq has activated a contract with BP to develop Kirkuk oilfields, targeting preliminary production of 328,000 barrels per day, the country's oil minister said on…

Liberia: FAO Calls for Clearer Land and Forest Rights in Liberia

Oct 1, 2025 | Francis G. Boayue
FrontPage Africa

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening natural resource governance in Liberia, urging reforms to clarify…

South Sudan: Climate Security Risks Brewing in South Sudan as Floods Escalate in Many Parts of the Country: A Case of Panyijiar

Sep 25, 2025 | Amos Agiro
UNDP

Catastrophic flooding in Panyijiar County has displaced more than 100,000 people, including 45,000 children and 26,000 women. Entire communities now struggle to survive, as floodwaters…