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Water Wars and Migration of Peoples Go to Eastern Europe?
Aug 20, 2015
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ABC
In 2015 it became apparent that the Middle East syndrome (increased tension and conflict in connection with the reduction of water resources) begins to spread…
Zimbabwe: Housing Co-operative Sues Chikwinya for Land ‘Grabbing’
Aug 20, 2015
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Xolisani Ncube, NewsDay
Woman Affairs minister Nyasha Chikwinya has been taken to court for allegedly falsifying documents to claim ownership of land occupied by a housing co-operative in…
The World’s Hot Spot
Aug 19, 2015
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Thomas Friedman
Here’s a bet about the future of Sunni, Shiite, Arab, Turkish, Kurdish and Israeli relations: If they don’t end their long-running conflicts, Mother Nature is…
Decentralisation Key to Ending Water Wars
Aug 19, 2015
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Nipon Poapongsakorn and Nujpanit Narkpitaks
Water is the lifeblood of agriculture. It has significant impacts on the livelihood of millions of Thai farmers. Early on in rainy season this year,…
Food Security: Peace is Good for Food Security - Sasu
Aug 19, 2015
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Samuel Hinneh, GhanaWeb
Born into a farming family where Lydia Sasu, a farmer and the executive director of Development Action Association (DAA) witnessed her mother struggle to make…
DRC: SEC’s Disclosure Requirement on Conflict Minerals Again Ruled Unconstitutional — What Now?
Aug 19, 2015
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Jessica S. Lochmann, Frank S. Murray, and Mark T. Plichta, National Law Review
In a long-awaited decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) reaffirmed its prior decision,…
D.C. Circuit Voids SEC “Conflict Minerals” Policy on First Amendment Grounds (Again)
Aug 18, 2015
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Jonathan H. Adler
This morning, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit again concluded that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s “conflict minerals”…
Call for Papers: IPSA 2016
Aug 18, 2015
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International Political Science Association
Organisers of two panels on environmental peacebuilding at the IPSA World Congress 2016 are looking for submissions. Abstracts have to be submitted through the IPSA…
Cambodia: Cambodian Government Takes Umbrage at US Congressman’s Comments on Land Grabs
Aug 18, 2015
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Radio Free Asia
Cambodia’s Ministry of Land Management is acting in accordance with the country’s laws and making an effort to respect citizens’ rights, a ministry official said…
DRC: D.C. Court Unleashes Conflict by Throwing out Conflict-Minerals Rule
Aug 18, 2015
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Daniel Fisher, Forbes
A federal appeals court in Washington threw out a regulation under the Dodd-Frank Act requiring public companies to state whether they use “conflict minerals” in…
Iraq: Iraq's Economy in Trouble
Aug 18, 2015
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Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press
As of July, Iraq's oil revenues stood at $31.5 billion, according to Oil Ministry figures, with an average daily export capacity less than a 3.3…
Iraq/Kurdistan/Turkey: Iraqi Kurdistan Says Oil Pipeline Sabotage Cost It $501 mln
Aug 18, 2015
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Reuters
Repeated sabotage by "organised gangs" of the oil pipeline from northern Iraq to Turkey has cost the autonomous Kurdistan region $501 million since July 1,…
Sudan: Volume of Sudanese Exports of Gum Arabic Reached 34.000 Tons
Aug 18, 2015
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Shadia Basheri, Sudan Vision
Gum Arabic is one of the important commodities that comes on the top of the Sudanese exports, especially after the outage of oil revenues because…
Over 140 Mines in Congo are Now Officially Conflict-Free: the Latest List
Aug 17, 2015
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Sasha Lezhnev
Over the past three years, teams of business persons, government officials, and civil society members have been traveling to mines in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to assess whether or not the…
Healing Waters From Hebron to Gaza
Aug 17, 2015
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Kate Rothschild
For millennia the Holy Land has attracted pilgrims from all corners of the Earth, devoutly following in the footsteps of Abraham and the patriarchs of…
Liberia: Can New Minister Break Liberia’s Agriculture Curse?
Aug 17, 2015
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Rodney D. Sieh, FrontPageAfrica
In tipping the low-key, Dr. Moses Zinnah, head of the Agriculture Sector Rehabilitation Project, as only her third Minister of Agriculture, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is…
Tensions in the South China Sea: The Nuclear Dimension
Aug 15, 2015
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Mathieu Duchâtel and Eugenia Kazakova
Ever since China started constructing artificial islands in the South China Sea (SCS) on an unprecedented scale and speed by the standards of the region,…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Turkey Plays 'Key Role' in Iraqi Kurdish Oil
Aug 15, 2015
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Anadolu Agency
Turkey played a key role in transferring Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) oil to the international market, Turkey's energy minister said on Saturday. Speaking to reporters…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Serious Water Wars Gathering Soot in Foreign Ministry
Aug 15, 2015
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Zeeshan Javaid, Pakistan Observer
Lack of communication between foreign office and ministry for water and power seemed to have put Pakistan and Afghanistan into uncertainty over the trans-border water…
Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan/Uzbekistan: World View: With Rise of ISIS, Violence Flares in Central Asia’s Fergana Valley
Aug 15, 2015
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John J. Xenakis, Breitbart
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have sent troops and officials to a Fergana Valley (or Ferghana Valley) border regions where there are violence is increasing in…
Mining: How Developing Countries Are Paying a High Price for the Global Mineral Boom
Aug 15, 2015
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John Vidal, Guardian
The high price of gold in recent years has also attracted thousands of small-scale miners into fragile ecosystems. Yanomami Indians in northern Brazil and Venezuela…
Myanmar: Myanmar Farmers Need Help Replanting Rice after Floods: U.N.
Aug 15, 2015
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Timothy Mclaughlin, Reuters
Farmers in flood-hit Myanmar face a scramble to replant damaged paddy fields in the next two weeks to avoid food shortages, and aid efforts in…
US 'Not Neutral' in South China Sea? A Rebuttal
Aug 14, 2015
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James Kraska
The recent article by Mark J. Valencia ("The issue of US 'neutrality' in South China Sea disputes"; Aug 11) complains that the United States is…
Water and Conflict
Aug 14, 2015
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Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel
The four-year drought in California, which is causing severe water shortages and related problems, is receiving increasingly more attention. It is affecting everyone, causing people…
Why Climate Change Could be China’s Biggest Security Threat
Aug 14, 2015
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Wilson VornDick
In preparation for the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Paris this November, the globe’s two largest emitters, China and the United States, have been pledging various actions…
Sierra Leone: NSAs Demand 25 Years Land Lease to Multinational Investments
Aug 14, 2015
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Awoko
As way to control land use and land lease to multinational foreign companies and ensuring women’s rights to own land, a group of Non-State Actors…
Iraq/Kuwait: Burning Kuwaiti Oil Wells Still Drain Iraqi Budget
Aug 13, 2015
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Ismaeel Naar, Al Arabiya News
Under a cash-strapped budget, Iraq today has to allocate its funds to a number of other obligations, including the fight against ISIS, contractual payments to…
Foreign Agriculture Service- Program Analyst
Aug 12, 2015
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
The incumbent of this position serves as an Advisor for Agriculture and Food Security in the Disaster Response and Mitigation Division (DRM) of the Office…
Iraq: Iraq’s Oil Output Climbs to Record as South Escapes Fighting
Aug 12, 2015
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Nayla Razzouk, Bloomberg
Iraq’s crude production climbed to an all-time high in July with record exports from southern terminals mostly unscathed by Islamic State militants. Output in OPEC’s…
Liberia: 2 Wounded in Land Dispute
Aug 12, 2015
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Abednego Davis, Liberian Observer
A land dispute between Milton Bukeh, administrator of the intestate estate of the late Gbarbour, Kpawee, Flee, Napal and Ballah and his siblings left one…