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Afghanistan/Iran: Efforts Underway to Resolve Hirmand Water Dispute with Afghanistan
Jun 11, 2025
Iran Front Page
Iran’s Government Spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani has said on the sidelines of the cabinet meeting that a portion of Iran’s water rights from the Hirmand River…
Afghanistan/Iran: Taliban Has Delivered Only Limited Helmand River Water, Says Iranian Official
Jun 11, 2025
Afghanistan International
An Iranian official said Monday that negotiations with the Taliban over the Helmand River water rights have yet to yield tangible results, accusing the group…
Afghanistan: One in Five Afghans at Risk from Landmines
Jun 11, 2025
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Maeve Cullinan
Telegraph
One in five Afghans is at risk of being killed or maimed by landmines and unexploded bombs, the world’s biggest de-mining charity has warned. After…
Timor-Leste: Timor-Leste’s Opportunity to Turn Its Wealth into Economic Development
Jun 11, 2025
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Yan Carrière-Swallow and Raju Huidrom
International Monetary Fund
Timor-Leste has achieved significant progress since its independence in May 2002. Asia’s youngest nation has maintained stability, strengthened institutions, and enjoyed enviable economic growth and…
Liberia: Expert Warns of 'Negative Consequences' as Pres. Boakai Awards 100 Percent Ownership of Four Oil Blocks to NOCAL without Legislative, Stakeholder Input
Jun 11, 2025
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Obediah Johnson
FrontPage Africa
President Joseph Boakai's recent decision to award 100 percent ownership of four offshore oil blocks to the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) without first…
Colombia: Making Nature a Healing Place: Interview with Colombia’s Enilda Jiménez
Jun 11, 2025
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Manuel Fonseca
Mongabay
The Gulf of Urabá, on the northwestern coast of Colombia, is a territory living in a constant social, economic and environmental struggle for existence. Biologically,…
Harnessing NIC Surveillance for Better Climate Security Outcomes
Jun 10, 2025
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Isabelle Bond
Australia’s National Intelligence Community could substantially enhance Australia’s climate security response. It could do so by applying its surveillance resources to the task.
Sushi Wars: Maritime Food Security, Criminal Networks and Geopolitical Risk
Jun 10, 2025
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Masaaki Yoshimori
Global fisheries, particularly the sushi supply chain, are entangled with rising geopolitical tensions, climate change and transnational crime. China’s use of distant-water fishing fleets as…
Ethiopia: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Lead
Jun 10, 2025
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Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse
Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse (VSF-Suisse) is a politically and religiously neutral humanitarian and development organisation with its headquarters in Berne, Switzerland, and country offices in…
Mehmet Altingoz
Environmental Engineer
Türkiye’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Turkey
Jun 10, 2025
Mehmet Altingoz is an environmental engineer and water policy expert dedicated to fostering cooperation over shared waters in regions of conflict. Having served in the…
UK: Researcher: Climate, Militaries and Conflicts
Jun 9, 2025
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
CEOBS provides a voice for our environment – and those who depend upon it – when it faces harm from armed conflicts and military activities.…
Call for Applications: Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding Training (Deadline: June 15, 2025)
Jun 9, 2025
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Geneva Water Hub
Join the Geneva Water Hub in Geneva from September 29 to October 3, 2025, for a transformative training course on Law, Policy and Science in…
Rivers as the New Frontlines of Geopolitics
Jun 8, 2025
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Samirul Ariff Othman
We are used to thinking of power grids, trade routes, and semiconductor fabs as the terrain of 21st-century power competition. But now add rivers—yes, rivers—to…
Sudan: Cholera Outbreak Worsens with 1,000 Daily Cases in Sudan
Jun 8, 2025
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Lukman Abdulmalik
The Star
Sudan is grappling with a fast-spreading cholera outbreak, with health officials reporting over 1,000 new cases daily in the capital, Khartoum. The surge in infections…
Afghanistan: Kabul at Risk of Becoming First Modern City to Run out of Water, Report Warns
Jun 7, 2025
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Mariam Amini
Guardian
Kabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, experts have warned. Water levels within Kabul’s aquifers have dropped by up…
Key Changes to the DRC Mining Code: A New Era for Investors and National Development
Jun 6, 2025
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Amani Cibambo
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to some of the world’s richest deposits of cobalt, copper, and other critical minerals, enacted major revisions to…
Minerals for Recognition: The Taliban’s Shadow Diplomacy
Jun 6, 2025
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Islomkhon Gafarov
Since the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan’s mineral and extractive industries have assumed growing strategic importance in the broader context of sustaining the country’s fragile…
Rwanda/DRC: Hidden Invasion: Rwanda's Covert War in the Congo
Jun 6, 2025
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Michela Wrong
NBC News
Leaked reports, satellite images and interviews reveal the extent of Rwanda's shadow war in the Congo, as the US tries to strike a deal for…
Djibouti: Réalisation d’Une Étude de Faisabilité du Projet, Jardins Urbains et Péri-urbains pour l’Autonomisation des Femmes dans la Région de Tadjourah
Jun 5, 2025
International Organization for Migration
L’objectif général de l’étude est d’évaluer la faisabilité technique, sociale, économique et environnementale de la mise en place de jardins maraichers urbains et péri-urbains, destinés…
Securing Women’s Land Rights: A Pathway to Food Security
Jun 5, 2025
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Sunaina Kumar
Observer Research Foundation
Despite playing a central role in food systems, women lack secure land rights in more than half of all countries, posing serious implications for food…
Nepal: Centring Women’s Knowledge and Leadership in Nepal’s Climate Response
Jun 5, 2025
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Manjeeta Gurung
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
Indira Dhital, a local woman leader from Kavre, central Nepal, recently recited this poem at the culmination of a UN Women project focused on building…
Sierra Leone Charts a New Diamond Story
Jun 5, 2025
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Jill Newman
Sierra Leone is historically rich in diamond deposits. They are found largely in alluvial mines, where miners sift through layers of mud and gravel for…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Erbil Rejects Oil Smuggling Accusations as Tensions with Baghdad Escalate
Jun 5, 2025
Rudaw
The Kurdistan Region’s natural resources ministry on Thursday rejected accusations by Iraq’s oil ministry of smuggling crude and failing to cooperate on oil handover. It…
South Sudan: South Sudan Imposes Emergency as Herder Clashes Kill Hundreds
Jun 5, 2025
Agence France-Presse
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Thursday declared a state of emergency in areas hit by deadly inter-communal clashes over cattle raids that have killed…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Erbil-Baghdad Tensions Escalate over Oil Production
Jun 5, 2025
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Wladimir van Wilgenburg
S&P Global Commodity Insights
The Iraqi Federal Ministry of Oil called on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to immediately hand over regional oil production on June 5, accusing the…
Afghanistan: UN Warns: Afghanistan’s Water Crisis and Lack of Green Spaces Threaten Lives
Jun 4, 2025
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has issued a warning regarding environmental degradation and the consequences of climate change in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Plundering Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: Global Silence and Environmental Destruction
Jun 4, 2025
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Ahmad Tamim Azimi
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
Afghanistan is a land rich in underground resources—an abundance that, in terms of value and diversity, could form the backbone of its national economy and…
New UN Review Highlights Youth Role in Climate, Peace, and Security
Jun 4, 2025
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Tara Abhasakun
Peace News
Across the globe, 698 million young people between the ages of 15 and 35 live in fragile and conflict-affected settings, according to the United Nations…
Georgia: Consultant, Enabling Actions to Address Challenges of Environmental Migration in Georgia
Jun 3, 2025
International Organization for Migration
Support the compilation of best practices on the migration, environment, and climate change (MECC) nexus mainstreaming and implementation of a case study to assess the…
Canada: Assembly of First Nations Releases 2025 Progress Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice, Highlighting Human Trafficking Crisis
Jun 3, 2025
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The Assembly of First Nations
The Assembly of First Nations
(June 3, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – On the sixth anniversary of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered…