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Liberia: EPA Trains Over 40 Female Journalists to Report Environmental Issues

Aug 26, 2020 | Alline Dunbar, FrontPage Africa

The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) last weekend concluded a two-day training for over 40…


China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Weighs World Court Arbitration against China if Maritime Diplomacy Fails

Aug 26, 2020 | Ralph Jennings, Voice of America

Vietnam is exploring the launch of an international arbitration case against China over a series of mishaps in a disputed sea if diplomacy fails, analysts…


South Sudan: South Sudan Set to Take over China-Operated Oilfields by 2027

Aug 26, 2020 | Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.com

South Sudan’s state-controlled Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) has started preparations to take over the management of some oilfields in the country by 2027, when it…


EnPAx Icon Miguel Alberto Londoño Gómez

Senior Officer for Post Conflict and Green Growth
Global Green Growth Institute
Colombia
Aug 25, 2020

Miguel Londoño is a Senior Program Officer at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). He works on issues of sustainability, conflict, and urban green growth,…


Ethiopia: Women in Ethiopia Face Challenges During COVID-19 Pandemic

Aug 24, 2020 | Crux

Women in Ethiopia often suffer from “traditional gender roles” where they are expected to defer to men in society. “During gatherings where men and women…


Kenya: Kenya – Indigenous Women Overcome Discrimination to Lead Community COVID-19 Responses

Aug 24, 2020 | Climate & Development Knowledge Network

In Kenya, indigenous women are tapping into local resources, and undertaking individual and collective initiatives to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. Rose Wamalwa reports. This is…


Liberia: Charcoal Burners to Plant Trees for Sustainability

Aug 24, 2020 | Global News Network

As part of efforts in sustainably managing the forest, members of the Suehn/Mecca District Charcoal Producers Association in Suehn/Mecca District, Bomi County have taken the…


Afghanistan: Taliban Taxes Illegal Gold Mines in Northeastern Afghanistan

Aug 24, 2020 | Nimatullah Ahmadi and Abubakar Siddique, Gandhara

Residents and officials in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan say the Taliban is raking in considerable revenues by taxing illegal gold mining in the remote…


DRC: Mining Major Backs Fair Cobalt Alliance Launched in the DRC

Aug 24, 2020 | Mining Review Africa

As the demand for the minerals in battery production, including cobalt, is set to increase to power the transition to a greener economy, the Fair…


Syria: Farmland on Fire in Northeast Syria

Aug 24, 2020 | PAX

A substantial number of the fires are the result of ongoing tension between Turkish-backed Syrian militias and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria,…


Massive Open Online Course: Gender and Mining Governance

Aug 21, 2020 | UNDP; EGP; IGF

Do you need to make a stronger case for amplifying women’s voices in mining governance? Do you want to become more skilled at evaluating the…


Water Wars Will Increasingly Fuel African and Middle East Conflicts

Aug 21, 2020 | Clive Lipchin and Hussein Solomon

The planet is heating up fast. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Middle East and Africa where the impacts on water security and…


Stopping Fuel Supplies Into Gaza Harms Israel

Aug 21, 2020 | Gidon Bromberg

When Hamas, which seeks to pressure the government of Qatar to continue sending money into Gaza launch rockets and balloon bombs into Israel, not only…


DRC: Technical Advisor

Aug 20, 2020 | African Wildlife Foundation

AWF is seeking a Technical Advisor to work with Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature(ICCN) to ensure implementation of best management practices for…


Myanmar: Climate, Security and Gender Consultant

Aug 20, 2020 | International Alert

For over 30 years, International Alert has been working to build positive peace and reduce violence, working across conflict lines and with all parties to…


Adjunct Faculty: International Water: Issues & Policy

Aug 20, 2020 | Johns Hopkins University: Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences: Advanced Academic Programs

The Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) is a division of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU).  As the nation’s…


Chad: Zakouma Project Manager (GEFZ)

Aug 20, 2020 | International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a union of Members made up of governments and civil society organizations. It provides public,…


CAR: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Drilling Program Manager

Aug 20, 2020 | Action Contre la Faim

Action Against Hunger (ACF) has been operating in the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2006. Drawing on its experience in the country, the actions carried…


Somalia, Ethiopia, and Nigeria: Socioeconomic Impacts of Internal Displacement

Aug 20, 2020 | Norwegian Refugee Council

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) is the world’s authoritative source of data and analysis on internal displacement. Since our establishment in 1998 as part…


WASH Coordinator - Emergency Medical Team

Aug 20, 2020 | International Medical Corps

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.

Established…


Afghanistan: WASH Advisor

Aug 20, 2020 | Première Urgence

Première Urgence is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organisation. Afghan Mission is the oldest PUI mission with the first medical intervention launched in 1980 just after…


Afghanistan: WASH Officer - (Afghan Female National)

Aug 20, 2020 | Norwegian Refugee Council

The purpose of the WASH officer position is day to day implementation of the WASH Project. The WASH Officer vary from the officer position by…


COVID-19 Exacerbates the Effects of Water Shortages on Women in Yemen

Aug 20, 2020 | Margaret Habib

The UN estimates that gender-based violence (GBV) has affected 33 percent of women worldwide. In Yemen, GBV has increased by 63 percent since the start of the civil war.…


To Address Gender-Based Violence, We Need Creativity, Collaboration and Courage

Aug 20, 2020 | Bjorn Andersson

One glaring truth the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced when it comes to gender-based violence is that it is a humanitarian, development and socioeconomic crisis—a…


Put Gender Equality at the Heart of the Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery

Aug 20, 2020 | Valeria Esquivel

Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 crisis large numbers of women were excluded from the labour market. The pandemic has made things much worse.

It is disproportionately…


Myanmar: The Fight over Myanmar's Marble Hills

Aug 20, 2020 | Asean Post

Around 80 percent of the village of some 2,000 households work in the marble business, but people fear they are being pushed out. The big…


Afghanistan: Fortescue Opens Talks with Afghanistan on Nation’s Mining Riches

Aug 20, 2020 | Eltaf Najafizada and David Stringer, Bloomberg

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. has held talks with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on potential mining sector opportunities in the nation, which has struggled to accelerate…


Liberia: Fessibu First to Complete Customary Land Process, as More Communities Line up

Aug 20, 2020 | Varney Kamara, FrontPage Africa

The town in the Gizzimah clan Zorzor District of Lofa County made history in June when it was certificated by the Liberian government after becoming…


In Northeastern Syria, Pollution and Conflict Prevent Thousands from Clean Water

Aug 20, 2020 | Elena Bruess

It has been decades since the oil fields in northeastern Syria began poisoning land and water. Production took off in the late 1960s, and before…


Syria: Where the Oil Runs Deep, Water Turns Foul

Aug 20, 2020 | Elena Bruess, Circle of Blue

It has been decades since the oil fields in northeastern Syria began poisoning land and water. Production took off in the late 1960s, and before…