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How Unexploded Bombs Cause Environmental Damage – and Why Climate Change Exacerbates the Problem

Sep 3, 2025 | Sarah Njeri

There are a record number of conflicts raging around the world – from Ukraine and Gaza to Sudan and Myanmar. Alongside their devastating human toll,…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan Fights Opium Poppy Cultivation [Video]

Sep 3, 2025
NHK WORLD-JAPAN

Afghanistan's poppies account for an estimated 80 percent of the world's opium. The Taliban have banned cultivation, but its efforts to eradicate the crop face…

Afghanistan/Tajikistan: The Tajikistan–Afghanistan Border Clash Alarmed Regional Security

Sep 3, 2025
SpecialEurasia

A firefight broke out on August 24, 2025, between Tajik border troops and Taliban forces near the Panj River in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, across from…

Sherri Goodman named Distinguished Fellow at Atlantic Council

Sep 3, 2025 | Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council announced today that Sherri Goodman has been named a distinguished fellow with both the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security —through its…

Water: TRENDS Conference Focuses on Water as a Critical Component of Peace and Development

Sep 3, 2025
TRENDS

On the first day of TRENDS Research & Advisory’s Fifth Conference on Sustainable Water Security, three main sessions discussed the challenges and opportunities related to…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Sudan, Egypt Reject Wider Nile Basin Role in Ethiopia Dam Dispute

Sep 3, 2025
Sudan Tribune

Sudan and Egypt on Wednesday rejected attempts to include other Nile Basin countries in their long-running dispute with Ethiopia over its massive dam on the…

Empowering Women Key to Easing Stress Amid War in Ukraine: UN Women

Sep 3, 2025 | Nathalie Minard
UN News

Nearly four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and 11 years since conflict began, the toll on people’s mental health is severe.

Women and girls…

Ecocide and Resistance in Palestine

Sep 2, 2025 | Mazin Qumsiyeh

As a Palestinian scientist and ecologist deeply rooted in Palestine’s landscapes and communities, the author bears witness to a catastrophic unfolding—a systematic assault on our…

CALL FOR ARTISTIC SUBMISSIONS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Sep 2, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The Arts Initiative of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are delighted to announce the call for artistic contributions for the Fourth…

Afghanistan: Women Mushroom Farmers in Kabul Seek Cold Storages

Sep 2, 2025 | Sonita Azizi
Pajhwok Afghan News

A number of women in Kabul, working with diligent hands and hopeful hearts to cultivate mushrooms using straw, lime and bran, say they need cold…

Afghanistan: Afghan Activists Urge UN to Halt Hazara Displacement and Land Seizures

Sep 1, 2025
ShiaWaves

Over 100 Afghan civil society groups and human rights activists have called on the United Nations to intervene urgently to stop the systematic displacement and…

Bangladsesh: Govt. Prioritizes Swift Compensation for Victims of Human-Elephant Conflict: Rizwana

Sep 1, 2025
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan today reaffirmed the government's commitment to promoting peaceful human-elephant coexistence, saying that streamlining and revising current…

Afghanistan: Eastern Afghanistan Earthquakes Threaten Livestock Farming and Family Income Sources

Sep 1, 2025
Hasht-E Subh

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that the devastating earthquakes in eastern Afghanistan severely threaten the livestock sector.

Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Chinese Gold Mining Provokes Battle between Taliban and Tajikistan

Sep 1, 2025 | Dmytro Shumlianskyi
MILITARNYI

The first military clash in three years between Tajik border guards and TDF militants took place on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The clash…

Afghanistan: Country Director

Sep 1, 2025 | People in Need

People in Need (PIN) is a Czech NGO providing relief and development assistance in over 20 countries worldwide. Formed in 1992, PIN has grown into…

DRC: Site Director, Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Sep 1, 2025 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been active in the OWR for more than 30 years, supporting its creation, and subsequently working closely with ICCN…

DRC: Rotational Associate / Manager (Renewable)

Sep 1, 2025 | One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to…

Syria/Lebanon/Turkey: Food System Strengthening (FSS) Lead, Türkiye, Syria and Lebanon

Sep 1, 2025 | Welthungerhilfe

The position is to be filled as soon as possible, with an initial contract duration of one year. There are very good prospects for an…

Niger: Expert Principal en Évaluation Environnementale et Sociale

Sep 1, 2025 | Société de Développement International

La mission du Consultant porte sur la conception d’un projet d’électrification et d’accès à l’électricité dont le financement pourrait être mobilisé, justifiant les études complètes…

Niger: Expert en Électrification Rurale

Sep 1, 2025 | Société de Développement International

Uganda: Agronomist - Karamoja - Ugandan Nationals Only

Sep 1, 2025 | Insieme si può

Insieme Si Puo' - ISP in Africa is a non-profit making organization based in Uganda since 1983, it has two territorial offices in Kampala and Moroto,…

Uganda: Advisor for Environmental Peacebuilding (m/f/x)

Sep 1, 2025 | AGIAMONDO e.V.

AGIAMONDO e.V. is the personnel service of German Catholics for development cooperation. In the Civil Peace Service, we offer professionals the opportunity for meaningful service in…

AU Seeks Women’s Hand in Bringing Peace to Sudan, Sahel, Horn of Africa

Aug 31, 2025 | Dotto Lameck
Daily News

IN strengthening the African Union’s efforts to advance the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda across the continent, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission…

Sudan/South Sudan: Sudan Orders Oil Shutdown; South Sudan Exports at Risk

Aug 31, 2025
Radio Tamazuj

Sudan’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has ordered an emergency shutdown of oil facilities in the Heglig area near the border with South Sudan following…

Myanmar: Myanmar Rare Earth Mines Surge in Rebel-Held Areas, Fuelling Toxic Risks

Aug 30, 2025
Nation

When it comes to rare earths, the world almost instinctively looks to China. The country is not only the global leader in rare earth processing,…

Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Armed Clash Erupts between Afghanistan and Tajikistan over Border Dispute and Mining Activities

Aug 30, 2025
AKIpress News Agency

An armed conflict occurred on August 24 in the Dawang border area of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province between Taliban forces and Tajikistan. One Taliban fighter was…

Gold in Sudan: A Resource between Looting and Smuggling… or a Tool for Post-War Recovery

Aug 29, 2025 | Omer Sidahmed

For thousands of years, gold has been tied to Sudan’s identity—from the kingdoms of Kush and Napata to the inscriptions left by the Pharaohs who…

Liberia: Liberian Communities Await Justice at Salala Rubber Plantation after World Bank Complaint

Aug 29, 2025 | Victoria Schneider
Mongabay

Five months after the World Bank’s private investment arm submitted its action plan to address community grievances against a rubber plantation it funds in Liberia,…

Afghanistan/China: Contract Breach or Banditry? Inside the Collapse of the Taliban's Oil Deal with China

Aug 29, 2025 | Anthony Kuhn and Vincent Ni
NPR

Turbaned Afghan officials and hard-hatted Chinese engineers gathered in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province in 2023 to mark the opening of Chinese-invested oil fields. The fields are…

Registration Now Open for Symposium on Water-Energy-Peace Nexus

Aug 29, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and University of Ottawa

Registration has opened for a one-day hybrid Symposium on the Water-Energy-Peace Nexus, which will be hosted by the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and the University…