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Ukraine: US Pledges $75M to Develop Ukraine’s Resources

Sep 18, 2025 | 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…

Somalia: Design of Gendered Displacement Drivers Assessment (GDDA) Framework

Sep 18, 2025 | CARE

Nagaasho – Integrated Solutions for Preventing Displacement and Strengthening Rural Resilience in Somalia and Somaliland is a consortium of national and international organizations – CARE…

DRC: UN Experts Warn Congo’s Conflict Minerals Slipping into Global Market

Sep 17, 2025 | 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…

Prioritize a Holistic Arctic Security Strategy for NATO: A Sketch

Sep 16, 2025 | Laurel Baker

NATO must consider a variety of non-military factors that inform an innovative, accountable, maximally situationally aware, and minimally disruptive Arctic security strategy. This graphic attempts…

Myanmar: Satellite Data Show Burst of Deforestation in Myanmar Rare Earth Mining Hotspots

Sep 16, 2025 | 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…

Liberia: Judge Warns against Rising Land Disputes

Sep 16, 2025 | Abednego Davis
Observer

Judge Boima Kontoe of the Civil Law Court raised concerns about the increasing conflicts over land in Liberia and called for the urgent need to…

Sudan: Anchors of Hope: Women Driving Recovery and Resilience

Sep 15, 2025 | UN Sudan
UN Sudan

The Sudan’s conflict, which erupted in April 2023, has created one of the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian crises. Today, an estimated 30.4 million people need assistance…

Conflict Minerals: Critical Minerals Contribute to Instability in Africa

Sep 15, 2025 | Jean-Michel Bos and Ana Munoz Padros
Deutsche Welle

Coveted for their use in environmentally oriented infrastructure and other emerging technologies, critical minerals are mined in 31 of the 54 countries on the African…

Sudan: Sudan Bans Private Gold Exports, Central Bank to Be Sole Buyer

Sep 15, 2025
Sudan Tribune

Sudan’s central bank on Monday banned all private gold exports, announcing it would become the sole legal buyer and exporter of the precious metal in…

Iran: Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Faces Irreversible Collapse as Hamoun Wetlands Dry up

Sep 15, 2025
Iran International

Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province is grappling with a worsening environmental crisis as drought and intensifying dust storms devastate the Hamoun wetlands, with experts warning of farmland…

Call for Proposals: Environmental Peacebuilding Panel at the 2026 NERPS Conference in Tokyo (Deadline: October 6, 2025)

Sep 15, 2025

Tobias Ide and Aleksandra Balinskaia will organise a panel on environmental peacebuilding at the 5th Conference of the Network for Education and Research on Peace and…

Syria: Syria's Silent War: How a Devastating Drought Threatens Post-Conflict Recovery

Sep 14, 2025 | Deepika Matange
The Week

Water scarcity, crop failure, and food insecurity, the three persistent pressures that were once a salient contributing factor to Syria’s social unrest-turned-civil war, are now…

Climate Change: Greenpeace: Climate Change Driving Migration, Hunger, and Global Conflict

Sep 14, 2025
ShiaWaves

Greenpeace has warned in a new report that climate change is now a leading driver of migration, food insecurity, and conflict in some of the…

DRC/Rwanda: DRC-Rwanda Draft Deal Outlines Role of US, Others in Revamp of Minerals Sector

Sep 14, 2025 | Sonia Rolley and Daphne Psaledakis
Reuters

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo will commit to working with third parties, including the US, to revamp their mineral supply chains and develop…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Is Losing More Than $11 Million Every Day as Baghdad Blocks Kurdistan Oil Exports

Sep 13, 2025
Kurdistan24

Iraq is losing more than $11 million every single day due to the continued suspension of oil exports from the Kurdistan Region, according to the…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Who Owns the Nile? Water, Power and Politics in a Warming World

Sep 13, 2025
Radio France Internationale

As climate change intensifies competition over water resources, the River Nile has become a symbol of both development and dispute. RFI speaks to a climate…

Call for Submissions: Path to Ottawa Initiatives

Sep 13, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

In the lead-up to the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding–taking place in June 2026 in Ottawa, Canada–the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and Conference partners are…

Call for Contributions: Visual Story Gallery (A Path to Ottawa Initiative)

Sep 13, 2025
Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace

As part of the Path to Ottawa Initiatives, the Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP) is pulling together a visual "Story…

Introducing War on Climate, a New Series That Explores How Conflict Interacts with Environmental Issues around the Globe

Sep 11, 2025 | Sam Phelps

The world is the most violent it has been in decades. A report by the Peace Research Institute Oslo recorded 61 conflicts across 36 countries…

Afghanistan/Tajikistan/Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan: Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal and the Paradox of Central Asian Water Politics

Sep 11, 2025 | Kamila Fayzieva
Diplomat

As climate change accelerates and water resources in Central Asia continue to shrink, the construction of the massive Qosh Tepa Canal in northern Afghanistan is…