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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
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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
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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
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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…
Afghanistan: Stripped of Inheritance, Women in Afghanistan Are Denied Even Their Own Property
Sep 28, 2025
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Elina Qalam
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
Women in Kabul say that the patriarchal structure of society has deprived them of their right to ownership. They explain that because of stereotypes and…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Resumes Kurdish Oil Exports to Turkiye after Two-and-a-Half-Year Halt
Sep 27, 2025
Al Jazeera
Iraq has resumed crude oil exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to Turkiye after an interim deal broke a two-and-a-half-year deadlock over legal and technical…
Afghanistan: Did Restrictions on Women Workers Hamper Afghanistan’s Earthquake Response?
Sep 27, 2025
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Ruchi Kumar
Al Jazeera
In 2022, the Taliban government banned women from working in NGOs operating in the country. A year later, it also forbade Afghan women from working…
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
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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…
Bangladesh/Myanmar: Myanmar Put Landmines along the Cox’s Bazar Borders of Bangladesh to Stop Cow Smugglers
Sep 25, 2025
Hindu Voice
What was once a border meant to separate two nations has, for Bangladeshis living in Cox’s Bazar, become a deadly minefield. For the past eight…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Eight Oil Companies Reach Agreement with Iraq, KRG to Resume Oil Exports
Sep 25, 2025
Reuters
Eight oil companies operating in Iraqi Kurdistan, representing over 90% of production, reached agreements in principle with Iraq's federal and Kurdish regional government (KRG) to…
Afghanistan: Kabul’s Highland Residents Struggle amid Severe Water Shortages
Sep 25, 2025
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Bibi Amina Hakimi
TOLOnews
In the high slopes of Kabul, where houses are built on the mountain sides, people's lives tell a different story of hardships. Residents of these…
Sunk Debris from World Wars Provides Home for Wildlife
Sep 25, 2025
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Robert Egan
Nature Publishing Group
More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea's seabed than on the sediment surrounding it. The…
Liberia: Mapping Liberia’s Fishing Future: New Study Highlights Urgent Need to Protect Landing Sites and Fishers’ Rights
Sep 25, 2025
Environmental Justice Foundation
Liberia’s small-scale fisheries are the backbone of coastal livelihoods, but they face mounting threats from coastal erosion, mangrove destruction, and insecure land rights. Fishing communities’…
Pakistan: Maryam Announces Special Courts for Land-Grabbing Cases
Sep 25, 2025
The News
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz announced new legislation to eliminate land grabbing targeting orphans, widows, and underprivileged citizens in the province. She also announced the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi PM Announces ‘Historic’ Deal to Resume Kurdish Oil Exports
Sep 25, 2025
Rudaw
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Thursday announced that his government has reached a "historic agreement" with the Kurdistan Region to resume Kurdish oil…
Climate Change: Baku Hub Partnership: Innovative Climate-Peace Solutions for Conflict Affected and Vulnerable Contexts
Sep 24, 2025
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Shoko Noda
UNDP
Time and time again, one barrier stands out: access to climate finance. We heard this clearly at the second Africa Climate Summit earlier this month,…
Liberia: Rural Communities Get Safe Drinking Water Facilities
Sep 23, 2025
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Emery Watson
Observer
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), through the Accelerated Community Development Programme (ACDP), will formally turn over four state-of-the-art solar-powered water facilities valued at $334,847.28…
South Sudan: More Than $2.2bn Diverted from Oil in South Sudan, Says UN
Sep 22, 2025
energynews
A UN report reveals that nearly 90% of road projects financed by oil never materialised, fuelling surging poverty amid extreme inflation and poor management.
India: From Conflict to Reconciliation: UN Calls to See Climate Harmony as Security, Stability
Sep 21, 2025
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Anoushka Caroline Williams
Newsmeter
It is also about whether crops survive erratic monsoons, whether the Yamuna and Musi rivers can still sustain life and whether urban air remains breathable…
Liberia: Carbon Markets: Liberia’s Next Frontier for Sustainable Growth
Sep 19, 2025
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Winnie Oguerilam
FrontPage Africa
As the world accelerates efforts to address climate change, carbon markets have become a central mechanism linking environmental stewardship with economic opportunity. For Liberia, a…
Colombia: Colombia Hands over 18,000 Hectares of Land to Rural Families
Sep 19, 2025
Prensa Latina
The transfer of 18,000 hectares of land belonging to drug traffickers and front men to rural families and victims in six departments marks a step…
Ghana: In Coastal Ghana, Female Oyster Farmers Try to Save an Old Practice Threatened by Climate Change
Sep 18, 2025
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Naa Adorkor Cudjoe and Ope Adetayo
AP News
Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a…
Land: How Land Grabbing Harms the Environment and Its Defenders
Sep 18, 2025
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Becca Inglis
The term "land grabs" describes large-scale acquisitions of land that rob communities of access to their homes and livelihoods. While the term has become more…
Nigeria: How Deadly Conflict and Climate Crisis Left the ‘Food Basket of Nigeria’ a Humanitarian Disaster Zone
Sep 18, 2025
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Nick Ferris
Independent
Jacob is one of two million people that the Red Cross estimates have been forced to flee their homes in Benue due to violent ‘herdsmen-farmer…
Ukraine: US Pledges $75M to Develop Ukraine’s Resources
Sep 18, 2025
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Hannah Northey
Energy & Environment News
The US is pledging $75 million to jump-start the mining and processing of critical minerals in war-torn Ukraine, as well as oil and gas and…
DRC: UN Experts Warn Congo’s Conflict Minerals Slipping into Global Market
Sep 17, 2025
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Pauline Turuban
swissinfo.ch
The energy transition is fueling demand for critical minerals, straining transparency of supply chains. A UN report warns that minerals extracted from the Democratic Republic…
Myanmar: Satellite Data Show Burst of Deforestation in Myanmar Rare Earth Mining Hotspots
Sep 16, 2025
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Latoya Abulu and Sonam Lama Hyolmo
Mongabay
Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals. But the dearth of regulations over mining these resources…
South Sudan: South Sudan’s Wealth ‘Stolen at the Top,’ UN Warns
Sep 16, 2025
Radio Tamazuj
The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan on Tuesday called for urgent action to address widespread corruption and the theft of public resources…