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Lebanon: Lebanon Urges US Envoy to End Maritime Dispute with Israel

Jun 6, 2022 | Bassem Mroue, Associated Press

The Lebanese government invited on Monday a U.S. envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over their disputed maritime border to return to Beirut as soon…

DRC/Rwanda: Rwanda-DR Congo Row: Tensions Rise again in the Great Lakes

Jun 5, 2022 | Timothy Kalyegira, Monitor

Tensions erupted last week between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Demonstrations were held this week in the Congolese capital Kinshasa to protest Rwanda’s…

DRC: EAC Membership to Help DRC Benefit from Its Minerals

Jun 5, 2022 | Chimp Corps

At the end of May, 2022, Hon Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, led a delegation of Ugandan…

Navy’s Climate Strategy Aims to Build Resilience against Readiness Challenges

Jun 4, 2022 | Kylie Bielby

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have released their climate strategy, Climate Action 2030, setting the Department of the Navy on a path to achieve…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Kurdistan Judicial Council Defies Supreme Court over Oil Law

Jun 4, 2022 | Reuters

The judicial council of Iraq's Kurdistan said the region's oil law remained in force, rejected a ruling from the federal supreme court that Kurdish authorities…

Colombia: Colombia Court Orders Penalties for President, Cites National Park

Jun 4, 2022 | Reuters

A court in Colombia has ordered President Ivan Duque to be fined and placed under house arrest for five days, it said on Saturday, citing…

Central African Republic Wants to Tokenize Mineral Resources

Jun 3, 2022 | Ledger Insights

After the Central African Republic (CAR) adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in April, yesterday, its President Faustin-Archange Touadéra announced on Twitter that the country plans to use…

Here's How Environmental Democracy Can Help Peace in Latin America

Jun 3, 2022 | Antonia Urrejola

In the last few decades, Latin America and the Caribbean has faced significant challenges in its development, associated with the sustainable use of its natural…

In a Time of Competing Crises, Environmental Action Matters More Than Ever

Jun 3, 2022 | Richard Black, Cedric de Coning, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Hafsa Maalim, Melvis Ndiloseh, Dan Smith, and Caspar Trimmer

Last week saw the launch of SIPRI’s major policy report Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk, looking at how to manage the…

In a Time of Competing Crises, Environmental Action Matters More than Ever

Jun 3, 2022 | Richard Black, Cedric de Coning, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Hafsa Maalim, Melvis Ndiloseh, Dan Smith, Caspar Trimmer

Last week saw the launch of SIPRI’s major policy report Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk, looking at how to manage the…

Iraq: 'It's a Mass Ecological Crisis': Extreme Weather in Iraq Hits Those Already Struggling the Hardest

Jun 3, 2022 | Yasmine Mosimann, The World

About a dozen dust storms have blown across Iraq this year. While these types of storms are a yearly occurrence in Iraq and neighboring countries,…

Ukraine: Troops Defend Utility Plants as Conflict in Ukraine Continues

Jun 3, 2022 | PA News Agency

As the fighting in eastern Ukraine inches forward, Russian attacks are knocking out power, water and gas to entire towns and cities and the utility…

Sustaining Shared Waters: An African Case Study

Jun 3, 2022 | Sarah Davidson

Transboundary governance of shared water resources is essential to meeting the world’s most pressing challenges. One globally significant transboundary region is the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation…

Colombia: IACHR Reveals Colombia's Failure to Provide Information on Members of the Public Force Investigated for Abuses

Jun 3, 2022 | Nick Quaz, The Gal Times

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published its 2021 Annual Report, a document that contains the human rights situation in the region and presents…

Ukraine: The Environmental Casualties of War in Ukraine

Jun 2, 2022 | Amanda Solliday, Duke University

While the war in Ukraine disrupts lives immediately and violently, damage is also happening to the soil, air and water that make up the places Ukrainians call…

Somalia: President Mohamud: Somalia Severely Affected by Drought

Jun 2, 2022 | Abdulkadir Khalif, East African

Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has urged citizens to chip in and help those severely affected by drought in the country, especially internally displaced…

Water Security: Vice President Harris Announces Action Plan on Global Water Security and Highlights the Administration’s Work to Build Drought Resilience

Jun 1, 2022 | The White House

More than two billion people today lack access to safely managed drinking water, and nearly half the world’s population lacks access to safely managed sanitation…

DRC: Suspension of Chinese Miner for Pollution in DRC Points to Wider Problem

Jun 1, 2022 | Immaculée Inamuco, Mongabay

In August 2021, local communities accused a Chinese gold-mining company of polluting a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeastern province of Tshopo. Residents…

Call for Applications: Support to Environmental Organizations on Conflict Sensitivity

May 31, 2022 | PeaceNexus Foundation

The PeaceNexus Foundation is welcoming applications from international organisations with an environmental, conservation, biodiversity protection or climate-focused mission for support on conflict sensitivity.

Environmental organisations are…

A Look at Violence and Conflict over Indigenous Lands in Nine Latin American Countries

May 31, 2022 | Astrid Arellano and Yvette Sierra Praeli

Indigenous people make up a third of the total number of environmental defenders killed across the globe, despite being a total of 4% of the…

DRC: DRC Needs to Dig Deeper in Mines for Electric Cars Battery Minerals

May 31, 2022 | Vincent Owino, East African

Pressure is now on mineral-rich countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help meet growing demand for copper, cobalt and lithium, critical…

Somalia: Enhancing Livelihoods and Business Skills for Vulnerable Women in Somalia

May 31, 2022 | African Business

DRC: Chinese Companies Linked to Illegal Logging and Mining in Northern DRC

May 31, 2022 | Gloria Pallares, Mongabay

In Yaliwasa, northern DRC, logs from 200-year-old hardwood trees lie rotting deep into the world’s second largest rainforest. They were cut in a hurry to…

Ukraine: Mass Civil Legal Action to Seek Compensation for Ukrainian War Victims

May 31, 2022 | Shaun Walker and Isobel Koshiw, Guardian

A consortium of Ukrainian and international lawyers is preparing to launch a mass civil legal action against the Russian state, as well as private military…

South Sudan: Consultancy, USAID / BHA Funded Conflict and Climatic Emergency Livestock Response Program in Greater Upper Nile states

May 30, 2022 | Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Germany

VSF Germany is an International Non Governmental Organization, providing humanitarian aid and development assistance to pastoralists and vulnerable communities in areas where livestock is of…