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Ukraine: Technical Experts (VERITAS UKR)

Sep 11, 2025 | SoCha LLC

SoCha is an international monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) firm that delivers evidence-driven insights to help development and humanitarian actors make adaptive, impactful decisions. We…

Liberia: EU Envoy Warns of Sahel Crises Consequences in Liberia

Sep 10, 2025 | William Q. Harmon
Observer

The European Union’s Special Representative for the Sahel has warned that the ongoing crises in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger pose far-reaching security and migration…

Liberia: EU Envoy Warns Liberia's Cocoa, Timber Exports at Risk over Deforestation, Burkinabè Influx

Sep 10, 2025 | Lennart Dodoo
Liberian Investigator

The European Union's head of delegation to Liberia has warned that the country's credibility as a cocoa exporter could be undermined if production continues to…

Kenya/South Sudan/Uganda: How Kenya, Uganda Profit from South Sudan’s Illegal Gold and Charcoal Trade

Sep 10, 2025 | James Anyanzwa
Nation

As South Sudan grapples with a deepening economic collapse driven by years of civil war and plummeting oil revenues, a shadow economy is thriving—one that…

Afghanistan: Dispute over Land Ownership Claims 2 Lives in E. Afghanistan

Sep 10, 2025
Xinhua

A Dispute over a piece of land between two brothers in the eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province has claimed two lives, provincial police spokesman Sayed Tayeb…

Colombia: Mennonites in Colombia to Repair Environmental Damage

Sep 10, 2025 | Josep Freixes
ColombiaOne

The Mennonite community that has lived for nine years in the Meta region of Colombia expressed its willingness to repair the environmental damage caused by…

Mary’s New Harvest: How Innovation Is Changing Farming in Embu

Sep 10, 2025 | Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Lutomia Cosmas, and Victor Nyamolo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

Mary, a smallholder farmer in Runyenjes, Embu, joined GTSTIB pilots to test new seeds, soil tools, and gender dialogues. Her yields and family nutrition improved, empowering her voice in…

We Are Missing the Peace in Climate Action

Sep 9, 2025 | Nazanine Moshiri

Despite the prevalence of climate diplomacy, its policy discussions often have a critical blind spot: The people who are worst affected rarely feature in summits,…

Afghanistan: 4 Water Supply Networks Launched in Afghanistan's Samangan Province

Sep 9, 2025
Xinhua

Afghan authorities have initiated construction on four new water supply networks in northern Samangan province, representing a key advancement in enhancing clean water access for…

Liberia: FDA, Firm Ask Court to Dismiss US$5M Lawsuit

Sep 9, 2025 | Emmanuel Sherman
The Daylight

The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and a logging company have asked the Commercial Court at the Temple of Justice to dismiss a US$5 million lawsuit…

They Dug for Decades for Colombia’s Disappeared and Now They Are a National Symbol

Sep 9, 2025 | Astrid Suarez
AP News

Luz Elena Galeano intently watches as the earth is sifted for clothing, documents and bone fragments, hoping for a sign of her husband, who disappeared…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Halting Region's Oil Exports Has Caused $28 Billion in Losses to Iraq, Says KRG Official

Sep 8, 2025
Kurdistan24

The prolonged halt of the Kurdistan Region's oil exports has inflicted staggering financial damage on the Iraqi state, amounting to more than $28 billion in…

Risking It All to Feed the Children: Liberian Women Exercise Right to Trade Without Fear

Sep 8, 2025 | Front Page Africa
Front Page Africa

 Eighteen years ago, Saybah Fomba left Liberia for Sierra Leone, braving the uncertainty of her first cross-border trading trip. Nearly two decades later, the once…

If Linked Mainly to Mineral and Business Deals, Peace Efforts in DRC Congo and Rwanda Will Not Go Far

Sep 7, 2025 | Bharat Dogra

Although a peace process involving Rwanda and DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) is supposed to be in place, this has not stopped eruption of violence,…

Afghanistan: Water Crisis and Water Mafia in Kabul: Situation Becomes More Critical Each Day

Sep 6, 2025 | Elina Qalam
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Groundwater levels in Kabul have severely declined due to continued drought, excessive use of water resources, and weak management, bringing the water crisis in this…

Uganda: Regional Pact Brings Hope to Artisanal Miners 15 Years Later

Sep 6, 2025 | Philip Wafula
Monitor

A 15-year-old resolution by 12 member states of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) has breathed life into Uganda’s Artisanal and Small-scale…

Poland/Ukraine: Polish Farmers Block Border with Ukraine

Sep 6, 2025 | Milena Bogdanova
Fakti.bg

Polish farmers have once again blocked the movement of Ukrainian trucks through the Medika-Shegyny checkpoint on the border with Ukraine, the State Border Service of…

Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan/Uzbekistan: The EU–UNEP Partnership to Support Locally Led Climate Actions in Fergana Valley

Sep 5, 2025
European Union

The regional initiative for Central Asia, funded by the European Union, within the EU–UNEP Partnership on Climate, Environment and Peace, was launched on 25 August…

Afghanistan/Tajikistan/Turkmenistan: Central Asia and Afghanistan Heading for “Confrontation” over Water-Thirsty Canal, Warns Analyst

Sep 5, 2025
bne IntelliNews

Water-stressed Central Asia and Afghanistan are heading for a “confrontation” over the Taliban’s building of the Qosh Tepa Canal, which will divert up to a…

Liberia: As Climate Change Drives More Farmers into the Forests, Ambitious Boakai Forestry Sector Reform Is Yet to Help Local Communities

Sep 5, 2025 | Eric Opa Duoe
New Narratives

Marthaline Gbar is among dozens of residents in the Garwin Authorized Community Forest who say they’ve been left impoverished by broken promises from Tetra Logging,…

Indus Waters Treaty: From Cooperative Vision to Calculated Confrontation

Sep 4, 2025 | Medha Bisht

Instead of believing that strategic patience would breed stability, the Modi government’s strategic escalation has made Indus water flows a tool of coercive diplomacy.

Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Mines under Taliban Contracts: Short-Term Revenues, Long-Term Costs

Sep 4, 2025 | Kazim Homayoun
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, the group’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has signed more than 205 mining contracts with domestic…

Afghanistan: UN Says Quake-Hit Areas in Afghanistan Contaminated by Explosive Ordnance

Sep 4, 2025
KabulNow

The United Nations has warned that parts of eastern Afghanistan hit by last week’s deadly earthquake remain contaminated with explosive ordnance, further complicating rescue and…

Syria: Severe Drought Threatens Food Security across the Middle East, Devastating Syria’s Fragile Recovery

Sep 4, 2025
Kurdistan24

A historic drought gripping Syria and the broader Eastern Mediterranean is decimating crops, draining rivers and reservoirs, and intensifying food insecurity, threatening millions in a…

China/Taiwan: Taiwan Accuses China of Breaching International Law over Drilling

Sep 4, 2025 | Helen Davidson
Guardian

Taiwan’s government has accused China of breaching international law by drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and immediately demanded it…

Iran: Iran's Water Crisis: A Nexus of Environmental, Political, and Security Challenges

Sep 4, 2025 | Fatemeh Aman
Future Center

Iran grapples with a water crisis that has evolved from an environmental challenge into a political emergency. The situation unfolds against a backdrop of mounting…

Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal Could Trigger a Central Asian Water Crisis

Sep 3, 2025 | Galiya Ibragimova

Water shortages have long been a serious problem in Central Asia. They will become even worse when Afghanistan completes a canal diverting significant volumes of…

Economic and Political Fragility and Insecurity: A Climate Triple Threat in South Sudan

Sep 3, 2025 | Rachel Stromsta

Among the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, South Sudan’s crisis is only expected to worsen, as the country lacks the requisite…

Transboundary Water Security in a Warming World: Conflict Risks, Cooperation Pathways, and Policy Imperatives

Sep 3, 2025 | Ashok Swain

Water security—the reliable availability of an acceptable quantity and quality of water for health, livelihoods, ecosystems, and production—has emerged as one of the defining challenges…

Three Reasons Why the Climate Crisis Must Reshape How We Think about War

Sep 3, 2025 | Duncan Depledge

The relationship between war and climate change is complex. But here are three reasons why the climate crisis must reshape how we think about war.