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Timor-Leste: Greater Sunrise Is Crucial For Timor Sea Development
Feb 19, 2015
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Lauren Barrett, Hart Energy
Hydrocarbon discoveries in the Timor Sea are plentiful, but there is much conjecture as to whether brownfield or greenfield development is the best way to…
DRC: 'Conflict Minerals' Law Reaps Unforeseen Results
Feb 19, 2015
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Ciaran McEvoy, Investor's Business Daily
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then critics of an obscure provision in the Dodd-Frank Act believe there is a highway…
Myanmar: Myanmar’s Mysterious Uranium is No Panacea
Feb 19, 2015
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Chan Mya Htwe and Phyo Lwin Aung, The Trade Times
A claim of a uranium find in Mandalay Division has sparked debate over whether the country should pursue nuclear power. The billionaire tycoon Tay Za…
Climate Change and Terrorism
Feb 18, 2015
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Keith Kloor
Last month, after the terrorist attacks in Paris, Nature published a Q & Awith an anthropologist who studies the murderous motivations of Islamic extremists. He discussed socio-cultural factors and an allure…
Why Can't Uganda Simply Stamp out Blood Minerals?
Feb 18, 2015
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Jeff Mbanga
Let's talk about blood minerals today. About nine years ago, I was assigned to write a story about Uganda's gold exports. Back then, as it…
South Sudan: Country Director
Feb 17, 2015
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Plan Limited
Plan South Sudan has been responding to the current humanitarian crisis since December 2013, supporting IDPs and vulnerable host communities through its integrated interventions in…
Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone: Country Head
Feb 17, 2015
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BRAC International
The Country Representative will be part of the senior management team of BRAC Iinternational and have shared accountability for programmatic and operational activities. As head of the country…
Central African Republic: Food Security Project Manager
Feb 17, 2015
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Tearfund
Tearfund is looking for an experienced Project Manager to manage the Food Security sector of our post conflict rehabilitation projects in the Central African Republic.…
Nepal: Gender and Natural Resource Management Specialist
Feb 17, 2015
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International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
ICIMOD is looking for a gender expert with substantive conceptual and theoretical knowledge and understanding of gender issues in natural resource management, climate change, and…
Cambodia: Project Coordinator
Feb 17, 2015
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WWF - Cambodia
WWF-Cambodia is looking for a qualified Project Coordinator, Supporting Forests and Biodiversity Project (SFB), who will oversee the management and coordination of all SFB related…
Yemen: International Consultant - Integrated Water Resources Management Specialist
Feb 17, 2015
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Under the general supervision of the FAO Representative in Yemen and the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Advisor of the project, and in close…
Myanmar: Field Officer for Improvement of Hygienic Environment
Feb 17, 2015
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Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development
NICCO is currently implementing a project for the improvement of hygienic environment and the provision of primary healthcare in the border areas in the Kayin…
Yemen: Irrigation Specialist
Feb 17, 2015
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Under the general supervision of the FAO Representative in Yemen and the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Adviser of the project, and in close…
Bangladesh: Iftekharuzzaman: State Patronising Festival of Land Grabbing in CHT
Feb 17, 2015
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Abid Azad, Dhaka Tribune
The state has been patronising a grand festival of land grabbing in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, said International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) member Dr…
South Sudan: S. Sudan Halts Parliamentary Activities over Lack of Funds
Feb 17, 2015
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Sudan Vision
JUBA – South Sudan’s parliamentary speaker has admitted that almost all parliamentary activities have been halted due to a lack of funds.
In an exclusive interview…
Iraq: Baghdad-Erbil Accord Over Oil Sales Breaking Down
Feb 17, 2015
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World Bulletin
The Dec. 5 oil-revenue sharing agreement between the Kurdish Regional Government, or KRG, and the Iraqi central government is unwinding, observers and experts said on…
Sierra Leone: Land Owning Families in Eastern Sierra Leone Sue Chinese Company and Paramount Chief to Recover Land
Feb 17, 2015
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Sonkita Conteh, The Sierra Express
Land owning families in Nimiyama Chiefdom, Kono District, Eastern Sierra Leone have commenced legal action in the country’s High Court against Orient Agricultural Ltd –…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's KRG PM Threatens to Withhold Oil Exports Without Budget Share
Feb 16, 2015
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Reuters
Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government may withhold crude oil exports if Baghdad does not send its share of the budget, Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani…
Timor-Leste: Call for New Approach to Timor Sea Negotiations
Feb 16, 2015
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Darren Mara, SBS
A new government has been sworn in in East Timor after the resignation of Xanana Gusmao from the post of Prime Minister.
Rui Araujo will now…
Myanmar: Jade Trade Bedevils Burma’s Transparency Aspirations
Feb 16, 2015
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Seamus Martov, The Irrawaddy
While Burma pushes ahead with plans to become a full-fledged member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global standard promoting openness in the…
Conflict Diamonds: HSBC and Shimon Yelinek: Arms, Drugs, Diamonds and Terrorism
Feb 16, 2015
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Aliaume Leroy, McGill International Review
Shimon Yelinek is an Israeli businessman based in Panama. Behind this facade however, he is one of the most notorious criminals you may find among…
Iraq Has Lost Billions from Gas Flaring
Feb 15, 2015
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Saadallah Al Fathi
Last week I discussed the announcement of the Iraq-Shell petrochemical project in Basra and estimated to cost $11 billion (Dh40.3 billion). I surmised that the…
Iraq: Iraq Has Lost Billions from Gas Flaring
Feb 15, 2015
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Saadallah Al Fathi, gulfnews.com
In June 2012, the IEA estimated that the implied value of the gas flared in southern Iraq to 2020 would be $70 to $100 billion…
Liberia: Taylor-Era Wartime Timber Company Penalized, Accused of PUP Breach
Feb 15, 2015
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Front Page Africa
The Danish timber giant Dalhoff Larsen and Horneman (DLH), a company accused of buying conflict timber during Liberia’s civil war, has been stripped of its…
Sudan (Darfur) : Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst
Feb 13, 2015
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UNEP
UNEP’s projects in Darfur aim to show how improving effective and inclusive natural resource management can support sustainable recovery from natural and man-made disasters, strengthen…
Call for Papers: Humanitarian Evidence Programme
Feb 13, 2015
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Oxfam GB and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University
The Humanitarian Evidence Program has launched a Call for Proposals to synthesize evidence on the topics of (1) acute malnutrition, (2) market support interventions, and (3)…
Suspending EPA-L Boss Sign of Political Patronage?
Feb 13, 2015
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Morris T. Koffa, Sr.
It has come to the attention of the Africa Environmental Watch (AEW) that Hon. Anyaa Vohiri, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia…
Myanmar: EITI Board Members Rap Govt over Mine Death
Feb 13, 2015
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Thomas Kean, Myanmar Times
Civil society members of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative’s International Board have slammed the government over the death of a protester at the Letpadaung copper…
Timor-Leste: As Xanana Gusmao Departs, Timor Must Prepare for When the Oil Runs Dry
Feb 13, 2015
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Tom Allard, Sydney Morning Herald
In the annals of East Timor's extraordinary emergence as a nation state after 500 years of foreign domination, no figure has loomed as large as…
Liberia: NOCAL ‘Lawyer’ Whistleblower in 25K Oil Saga Dead
Feb 13, 2015
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Mae Azango and Al Varney Rogers, Front Page Africa
Monrovia - Cllr. Michael Allison, the former consultant to the National Oil Company of Liberia who reportedly blew the whistle that had led to an…