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Iraq: Iraq’s 2025 Gas Pivot: Can Baghdad Turn Flares into Fuel?

Oct 10, 2025
Shafaq News

Iraq has moved aggressively in 2025 to overhaul its gas sector—pushing capture projects, sealing multi-billion-dollar partnerships, and tying the effort to electricity security and an…

Liberia: A Cacao Rush Drives ‘Alarming’ Deforestation in Liberia

Oct 10, 2025 | Ashoka Mukpo
Mongabay

A rush to plant cacao in southeastern Liberia is destroying large tracts of rainforest. According to satellite data as well as interviews with local environmental…

Afghanistan: Afghan Farmers Battle Drought amid Fragile Peace

Oct 8, 2025
Xinhua

In the sturdy stillness of Wardak Province, just 35 km west of Kabul, an unrelenting specter has replaced the echoes of two decades of war.…

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Environmental Peacebuilding Awards (Deadline: 30 November 2025)

Oct 8, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to present awards to leaders, practitioners, and researchers from our community.The Environmental…

Liberia: Unmasking Waste and Abuse of Forest Resources in Liberia: The Case of Abandoned Logs

Oct 6, 2025 | Junior B. Kesselee
FrontPage Africa

In the deep rainforests of Liberia, thousands of felled logs lie rotting in company’s yards, swamps, and roadside fields—harvested but never exported, valued but never…

Iraq: Iraq’s Vote Pits Oil Wealth against Superpower Rivalry

Oct 6, 2025 | Simon Watkins
Oilprice.com

Iraq’s 11 November parliamentary elections could mark the key turning point in the country’s history since the ousting of former president Saddam Hussein in April…

Sudan/South Sudan: Juba, Port Sudan Agree to Protect Oil Facilities, Pipeline Stations

Oct 6, 2025
Xinhua

Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to protect oil facilities and the central stations of the pipelines transporting Juba's oil to Port Sudan on the…

Liberia: Supreme Court Revives Liberia’s $11.5 Million Diamond Scandal, Sending Ex-Weah Officials back to Civil Court

Oct 6, 2025 | Amos Harris
Global News Network Liberia

The mystery surrounding Liberia’s controversial 53.34-carat diamond, valued at over $11.5 million, has dramatically resurfaced at the Temple of Justice. The Supreme Court has instructed…

Colombia: Petro’s Agrarian Reform Drives Surge in Colombia’s Food Production

Oct 6, 2025 | Josep Freixes
Colombia One

The agrarian reform implemented by the government of President Gustavo Petro has boosted food production in Colombia, where agriculture remains an important part of the…

Afghanistan/Iran: Taliban Express Readiness to Settle Water Dispute with Iran

Oct 5, 2025
Afghanistan International

Iranian media reported that Taliban officials have expressed readiness to resolve the long-standing water rights dispute with Iran during a meeting with the acting head…

Afghanistan: Energy Conservation: The Key to Lifting Afghanistan out of Darkness and Poverty

Oct 5, 2025 | Kazim Homayoun
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

In today’s Afghanistan, energy conservation is not merely an environmental slogan; it is an economic, social, and security necessity. A country that imports most of…

Egypt/Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Egypt Trade Accusations over GERD’s Role in Nile Floods

Oct 4, 2025
Sudan Tribune

Ethiopia and Egypt have exchanged sharp accusations over the management of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), with each country blaming the other for recent…

DRC: The Resource War: How Minerals Fuel the Conflict in Congo

Oct 4, 2025 | Dragos Alexandru Ionita
Modern Diplomacy

In Central Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo is once again facing an escalating conflict between the government forces and the March 23 rebel movement.…

Land/Food Security: Experts Warn: Land Rights Disputes Hurt Food Security

Oct 4, 2025 | Patricia Tembo
Food For Mzansi

The Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (CoRE-SFS), hosted by the University of Pretoria, recently held a webinar series tackling key themes…

Ethiopia: Country Director

Oct 3, 2025 | ActionAid Ethiopia
Relief Web

ABOUT ACTIONAID

ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) is a Gender justice and poverty eradication organization. In Ethiopia, ActionAid works to challenge gender inequalities and the structural causes of…

The Violence of Hunger: The 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report

Oct 3, 2025 | Eugene Cho

This summer, the 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report gave us the most current look at hunger across the globe. The…

DRC: Beans that Break the Cycle: Food, Freedom and Female Power in DRC

Oct 3, 2025 | Bola Amoke Awotide, Julie Ntawinja, Yohane Chideya, Hosny Dunia, Richard Kataliko, Lucky Kalisya, and Jean Claude Rubyogo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

In eastern DRC, women are reclaiming land through the B4WE project, using biofortified beans to fight malnutrition, gain economic independence, and foster peace. Farming is…

Afghanistan: Kabul Residents Face Severe Water Shortages, Call for Urgent Action

Oct 3, 2025
Asian News International

Residents of Kabul's District 5 have raised alarm over a worsening water crisis, complaining that they lack daily access to clean drinking water.

Sri Lanka: Landmark UN Study Links Climate Change, Gender, and Security Risks in Sri Lanka

Oct 2, 2025 | UNDP
Newswire

The United Nations launched a landmark study on how climate change, gender and security in Sri Lanka are interconnected. Commissioned by the Joint UN Development…

Colombia: Victims of Colombian Conflict Given Land from Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Ranch

Oct 2, 2025 | James Reynolds

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’.

President Gustavo Petro…

Applying a National Security Lens to the International Court’s Climate Change Opinion

Oct 2, 2025 | Danielle Ireland-Piper

Climate change is widely recognised as a national security risk. Successive defence planning strategies have identified climate change as such. For example, the 2023 Defence…

Liberia: Liberia Awards Customary Land Deeds to Communities

Oct 2, 2025
Global News Network Liberia

The historic event marked the official recognition of land ownership for 23 communities that have completed the Confirmation Survey and Customary Land Formalization (CLF) process.…

Iraq: Iraq Activates Contract with BP to Develop Kirkuk Oilfields, Initial Target of 328,000 bpd

Oct 2, 2025
Asharq Al Awsat

Iraq has activated a contract with BP to develop Kirkuk oilfields, targeting preliminary production of 328,000 barrels per day, the country's oil minister said on…

Nigeria: Short Term Expert Consultant, GIZ PEACECORP II

Oct 1, 2025 | Corus International
Relief Web

About Corus: Corus International is the parent of a family of world-class social impact organizations that collaborate in the world's most vulnerable communities to deliver the…

Pills and Pollution: Captagon Production in Syria

Oct 1, 2025 | Leon Moreland

Captagon is the street name for fenethylline, a synthetic stimulant created by chemically bonding amphetamine, a powerful central nervous system stimulant, with theophylline, a drug…

Liberia: FAO Calls for Clearer Land and Forest Rights in Liberia

Oct 1, 2025 | Francis G. Boayue
FrontPage Africa

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening natural resource governance in Liberia, urging reforms to clarify…

The Nexus of Conflict, Mining, and Violence in Eastern DRC

Sep 30, 2025 | Ashley Nunes

After decades of bloodshed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Félix Tshisekedi recently demanded the country’s parliament and the international community recognize the…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Sep 30, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.…

Canada: Financial Controller

Sep 30, 2025 | IMPACT

IMPACT transforms how natural resources are managed in areas where security and human rights are at risk. We investigate and develop approaches for natural resources…

Ukraine: WASH/Shelter/NFI Coordinator

Sep 30, 2025 | Polish Humanitarian Action - Polska Akcja Humanitarna

Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) is an international non-governmental organization which since 1992 has been providing humanitarian and development help worldwide. So far, the interventions have…