International
Colombia: Avocado Farming Is Threatening Colombia’s Natural Water Factory
Nov 1, 2022
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Emily Senkosky, Mongabay
Sonsón and other nearby municipalities in Antioquia have ideal conditions for growing avocados. At the same time, they are also neighboring some of the world’s…
Sudan: Pipeline Sabotage in Kordofan Shuts Sudan Oil Refinery
Nov 1, 2022
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Dabanga
A major section of the Khartoum Petroleum Refinery that processes Nile Blend crude oil has been shut down after sabotage to the pipeline in the…
Conflict Minerals: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to Decide on Fate of Russian Diamonds
Nov 1, 2022
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News24 Africa
The plenary meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is under way in Gaborone, Botswana, until Friday and it's expected to decide if Russian…
Greece/Turkey: Libyan Energy Pact Ramps up Risks of Turkey-Greece Conflict
Nov 1, 2022
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Nektaria Stamouli, EnergyWire
Turkey's energy deal with Tripoli this month is ratcheting up the dangers of open conflict between Ankara and Athens.On Oct. 3, Turkey signed a preliminary…
Yemen: Women Must Lead the Way Out Yemen’s Climate and Conflict Crises
Nov 1, 2022
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Jackie Abramian, The Progressive Magazine
A new report surveys the work that women-led organizations on the ground are doing to promote peace through climate awareness.
Africa Investment Forum: Green Jobs Can Help Shift the Climate of Gender Equality for African Women
Oct 31, 2022
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ADBG
The Africa Investment Forum has a strong track record of supporting the success of women business owners and entrepreneurs. Less well-known is that the Africa Investment…
Sudan: Sudanese Refinery Resumes Full Operations after ‘Sabotage’
Oct 31, 2022
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Associated Press
An oil refinery in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum resumed operations following a brief halt due to an act of “sabotage” on one of its…
Egypt: Egypt's Farmers Fear Rising Social Tensions over Scarce Water
Oct 31, 2022
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Menna Farouk, Reuters
For three decades, brothers Ramadan and Mamdouh Othman have grown summer crops of maize, olives and cucumbers on their Nile Delta land in Egypt's northern…
Ukraine: No Water for Much of Kyiv amid Heavy Russian Barrage on Ukraine
Oct 31, 2022
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PA News Agency
A massive barrage of Russian cruise missile and drone strikes hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities early on Monday, knocking out…
Iraq: Huge Fire Rips through Oil Refinery in Erbil, Iraq [Video]
Oct 31, 2022
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Vickie Scullard, Euro Weekly News
The blaze broke out today, Monday morning, in an oil refinery in Erbil’s Qushtapa sub-district, according to official accounts. The Erbil Civil Defence posted a…
South Sudan: The Promise of Oil and Gas in South Sudan
Oct 31, 2022
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Alex Irwin-Hunt and Munyaradzi Makoni, fDi Intelligence
When South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on July 9 2011, it was hoped that oil revenues would fuel the economy of the world’s youngest…
Iraq: For Water-Stressed Iraq, Wells Threaten Race to the Bottom
Oct 30, 2022
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Agence France-Presse
Iraq has long drilled the desert for oil, but now climate stress, drought and reduced river flows are forcing it to dig ever deeper for…
Colombia: Colombian Govt. Hands over Farm Belonging to Former Paramilitary Leader
Oct 30, 2022
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teleSUR
The Colombian Government has handed over to fifty peasant families, victims of the armed conflict, the Támesis farm, which had been occupied by Carlos Castaño,…
Iraq: Twilight of The Tigris: Iraq's Mighty River Drying up
Oct 30, 2022
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Aymen Henna, Agence France-Presse
It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. But today the…
Liberia: Swiss Firm Says FDA Lied in Defending Illegal Permits
Oct 29, 2022
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Emmanuel Sherman, The Daylight
The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) lied that its Swiss contractor had declined to register logs from a plantation in Nimba County, which led it to…
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Suspends Participation in Deal on Ukraine Grain Exports – as It Happened
Oct 29, 2022
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Joanna Walters, Nadeem Badshah, Sarah Haque, and Geneva Abdul, Guardian
The Russian government has written to the United Nations telling the international body that “starting today” it is suspending for an “indefinite term” the Black…
Ghana: First Fully Traceable Mineral Extracted in Ghana
Oct 28, 2022
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Mining Review Africa
For the first time in Ghana’s mining history, Minexx, in collaboration with Solidaridad, a civil society organisation, has successfully exported 11.62 grams of gold fully…
Colombia: Colombians Are Occupying Land to Protest Inequality. Here’s the History.
Oct 28, 2022
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Laura García-Montoya and Isabel Güiza-Gómez, Washington Post
In Colombia, Indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant groups have escalated land occupations in recent months, seeking to ensure the government carries out long-standing land redistribution promises.…
Ukraine: Energy Crisis Sparked by Ukraine War to Speed up Green Transition - IEA
Oct 26, 2022
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Noah Browning, Reuters
The drop in Russian fossil fuel exports after its Ukraine invasion this year will transform the global energy landscape for decades and can help to…
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Accused of Sabotaging Ukraine Water Pipe to Mykolaiv
Oct 26, 2022
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Viktoriia Zhuhan and Nader Ibrahim, BBC News
For six months, homes in Ukraine's southern coastal city of Mykolaiv have been without clean drinking water. Military and UN experts have told a BBC…
Myanmar: Myanmar Junta Now Stripping Rohingyas of Land Ownership
Oct 26, 2022
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Dhaka Tribune
In what can be dubbed as the latest nail in the coffin of Rohingya's existence in the Rakhine state, the Myanmar junta has officially started…
Afghanistan: Clash over Land Claims 4 Lives, Wounds 3 in Afghan Province
Oct 25, 2022
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Xinhua
A clash between two families over the ownership of a farmland in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province claimed the lives of four persons and injured three…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad Court Annuls Three More KRG Contracts
Oct 25, 2022
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Iraq Oil Report
A court in Baghdad has invalidated three more of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) oil contracts, marking a further escalation in the federal government's campaign…
Climate Change: How Cultivation, Climate Change and Conflict Have Changed the Origin of Your Potato Crisps: Study
Oct 25, 2022
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Gill Hyslop , BakeryandSnacks
Agriculture is the backbone of the world’s economic activity (accounting for 4.3% of GDP, with a value of $3.6 trillion in 2020) and critical for…
Liberia: 22 Affected Communities File Historic Petition for Declaratory Judgment against Salala Rubber Corporation and the Liberian Government
Oct 24, 2022
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FrontPage Africa
Residents of 22 indigenous Kpelle communities, dispossessed of their customary land, cultural sites, and livelihoods, have filed a groundbreaking legal action against the Salala Rubber…
Somalia: Drought in Somalia: The Race to Save Lives as the Climate Crisis and Conflict Drive Hunger
Oct 24, 2022
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Peyvand Khorsandi, World Food Programme
WFP is in a race against time to save lives, with famine projected in Baidoa and Burhakaba, in the country’s Bay region, in coming months…
Afghanistan: Conflict and Drought-Affected People in Herat Provided with Humanitarian WASH Needs
Oct 24, 2022
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Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees
Recent conflicts in Afghanistan and in the meantime prolonged drought mostly in the north and western regions have forced many people to leave their homes…
Afghanistan: Agriculture Industry Complains of Lack of Markets
Oct 23, 2022
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TOLOnews
Participants in the 27th autumn exhibition of agriculture products expressed frustration over lack of sufficient markets for their products. They called on the Islamic Emirate…
Bhutan: Protected Farming to Fight Human-Wildlife-Conflict
Oct 22, 2022
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Kuensel
Pema Letro and his wife Tshering Zangmo’s house at Jigmeling, Gelephu is located on the way that elephants use to cross. With increasing conflicts with…
UN Deputy Chief Calls For Promoting Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding
Oct 21, 2022
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Mangalorean
United Nations: The international community should step up efforts to promote women’s participation in conflict-prevention and peacebuilding, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said.