International
Mali: Food, Security and Peace Desperately Needed in Mali – UN Deputy Relief Chief
Aug 31, 2018
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UN
UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ursula Mueller – who just wrapped up a four-day mission to Mali – underscored that food, security, protection and peace…
Iraq: Water Pollution Destroys Iraq’s Oil-Rich South
Aug 31, 2018
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Agence France-Presse
While Iraq’s water shortages are not just confined to Basra, the region suffers from a toxic mix of polluted and salty water, dismal public services,…
Climate Change: Sweden Launches New Research Collaboration for Climate and Security
Aug 30, 2018
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Government of Sweden
A new research collaboration for climate and security will be launched today in connection with World Water Week in Stockholm. The Stockholm Climate Security Hub…
Afghanistan: Amid Chronic Violence, Millions of Afghans Face Risks of Drought Related Displacement
Aug 30, 2018
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Enayatullah Azad, Inter Press Service
Amid a precarious security situation in Afghanistan, the worst drought in recent history, that hit two out of three provinces in Afghanistan in July, has…
Afghanistan: Blue Gold: The Quest for Household Water in Kabul City
Aug 30, 2018
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S. Reza Kazemi, Afghanistan Analysts Network
Given growing water scarcity and pollution, increasing numbers of residents in Kabul city are struggling to provide enough safe water for their households. Many are…
Afghanistan: Govt Promoting Saffron Cultivation in Insecure Areas
Aug 30, 2018
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Haidarshah Omid, TOLOnews
The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock continues its efforts to promote saffron cultivation in Nangarhar, Farah, Paktia and other insecure provinces as an appropriate…
Myanmar: Decades of Land Confiscations [Video]
Aug 30, 2018
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Union of Catholic Asian News
Widespread and under-reported land grabs from the poor, prevalent in Myanmar in the past, must be addressed and the victims adequately compensated, urges Human Rights…
Syria: Water Crisis Looms as Syria Military Conflict Winds Down
Aug 29, 2018
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Edward Yeranian, Voice of America
Seven years after civil war erupted in 2011, it appears Syria is beginning to emerge from a dark period of death and destruction. Any recovery…
Myanmar: Myanmar Dam Breach Floods 85 Villages, Thousands Driven from Homes
Aug 29, 2018
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Shoon Naing and Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters
As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000…
Afghanistan/Iran: Afghanistan Says There Is No Dispute with Iran over Helmand
Aug 29, 2018
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Mehr News Agency
Deputy Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs for Management and Resources Nasir Ahamad Andisha said in a TV program that Tehran and Kabul have signed an…
Egypt/Sudan: Sudan, Egypt FMs Discuss Red Sea Security, Ethiopia Dam
Aug 29, 2018
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Ali H. M.Abo Rezeg, Anadolu Agency
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri on Wednesday met with Sudanese counterpart Aldirdiri Mohamed Ahmed in Cairo to discuss regional developments. According to an Egyptian Foreign…
Afghanistan: This Startup Is Sourcing from Conflict Zones and Selling at Sephora
Aug 29, 2018
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Esha Chhabra, Forbes
Shopping at Sephora can now make social impact -- and potentially divert traffic away from the opium epidemic in Afghanistan. Barbara Stegemann, the founder of The 7…
Myanmar: Meteorologist Warn about Floods
Aug 29, 2018
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Hsan Htoo Aung, Eleven
In the post-monsoon period, there may be formation of low pressure areas three times in the Bay of Bengal and of them, two low pressure…
Iraq: Hospitals in Basra Inundated with Cases Linked to Dirty Water
Aug 29, 2018
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Suadad Al-Salhy, Arab News
Hospitals in Basra have been flooded with thousands of patients suffering from drinking polluted and saline water as the province reels from the latest breakdown…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad Doesn’t Have Oil for Its Own Needs, Let Alone Kurdish Provinces: Official
Aug 29, 2018
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Rudaw
Baghdad has not agreed to send gasoline and diesel to the Kurdistan Region, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said on Wednesday, saying there is not…
Iraq: Basra Health Crisis: 17,000 Admitted to Hospitals for Water Poisoning
Aug 29, 2018
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Mina Aldroubi, The National
Basra's health authorities said on Wednesday that more than 17,000 people have been admitted to hospitals over illnesses contracted from polluted drinking water. There has…
Afghanistan/Iran: Negotiating Hamoun Water Right, Only Way for Sistan to Survive: Report
Aug 29, 2018
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Tehran Times
The Hamouns are transboundary wetlands on the Iran-Afghan border made up of three lakes: Hamoun-e Helmand, which is entirely in Iran, Hamoun-e Sabari on the…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pakistan to Engage Afghanistan for Signing Water Treaty
Aug 28, 2018
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The Nation
The government of Pakistan is continuously trying to engage the government of Afghanistan into dialogue for a possible water treaty in future or at least to…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pak Initiates Talks on Water Treaty with Afghanistan
Aug 28, 2018
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Independent News Pakistan
The government of Pakistan (GoP) is trying to engage the Afghan government in dialogue for a possible water treaty and to develop some mechanism for information sharing between…
Liberia: Liberia Set to Secure Ancestral Land Rights with Long-Awaited Law
Aug 27, 2018
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Nellie Peyton, Reuters
Liberia is on the verge of passing a long-awaited land rights law that would help prevent foreign companies uprooting communities to make way for mining…
Iraq: 'Iraq Is Dying': Oil Flows Freely but Corruption Fuels Growing Anger
Aug 27, 2018
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Guardian
The land of the Bani-Mansour clan north-east of Basra is flat and parched, spattered with dry crusts of salt and thorny shrubs. Clusters of palm…
Liberia: Land Rights Act Passed
Aug 27, 2018
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J. Burgess Carter, Observer
Following years of open hearings, debates, committee reports, and conference committee work, the Senate at its 54th day sitting last Thursday, unanimously voted to concur…
Iraq: Iraq Restores Part of Largest Oil Refinery after 4-Year Hiatus
Aug 27, 2018
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Xinhua
Iraq has rehabilitated part of its largest oil refinery located in Baiji of the country's central province of Salahudin after it was sabotaged in fierce…
Iraq: Oil-Rich Basra Threatens Vote to Pull Away from Iraq
Aug 27, 2018
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Gilgamesh Nabeel and Tamara Emad, Washington Times
Protesters poured into the streets and picketed oil fields in southern Iraq amid growing discontent over the government’s failure to combat unemployment, provide drinkable water…
Myanmar: Over 13,000 Tonnes of Illegal Timber Seized in Four Months
Aug 27, 2018
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Hsan Htoo Aung, Eleven
From April to July of this fiscal year, the government could seize 13183.2095 tonnes of illegal timber, according to the figures released by Forest Department.…
South Sudan: South Sudan Resumes Pumping 20,000 bpd from Oil Field Suspended Since 2013 - Sudan
Aug 26, 2018
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Reuters
South Sudan has resumed pumping 20,000 bpd of crude from Toma South oil field, where production had been suspended since 2013, the Sudanese oil minister…
Myanmar: Myanmar Returns Confiscated Land to Farmers in Central Region
Aug 26, 2018
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Xinhua
The Myanmar government has returned over 481.92 acres (195 hectares) of farmland confiscated by the Ministry of Defense to 123 farmers in Toungoo, Bago region,…
Liberia: Senate Passes Land Rights Act
Aug 25, 2018
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Ida Reeves, Bush Chicken
The Liberian Senate has finally concurred with the House of Representatives to pass the Land Rights Act. If signed into law by President George Weah,…
Iraq: Iraqi Protest against Unsafe Water in Basra [Video]
Aug 25, 2018
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Osama Bin Javaid, Al Jazeera
People have been protesting in the Iraqi city of Basra after hundreds fell ill after drinking contaminated water. Iraq's government is investigating what caused this…
South Sudan: Production to Restart at South Sudan Oilfields
Aug 25, 2018
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Africa Oil & Power
Intensive preparations for oil production resumption will culminate on August 25 at Toma South, South Sudan, with the relaunch of production from blocks 1, 2…