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Iraq/Kurdistan: KRG Says ‘No Court’ Authorized to Invalidate Oil, Gas Law

Jun 13, 2022 | Chenar Chalak, Rudaw

No court in Baghdad has the authority to outlaw the Kurdistan Region’s oil and gas law, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) natural resources ministry stated…

Sudan: 100 Killed in Darfur in Land Dispute

Jun 13, 2022 | Marwan Asmar, Al Bawaba

Darfur mayhem in Sudan. Reports coming in suggest that nearly 100 people were killed as well as a large number of casualties killed in a…

Liberia: Abandoned Logs Turn out as Collateral in Illegal Deal

Jun 13, 2022 | FrontPage Africa

An unlawful deal for a company to purchase a consignment of logs illegally felled and abandoned in a forest in Grand Cape Mount County has…

Ukraine/Russia: Russia Has Achieved at Least 1 of Its War Goals: Return Ukraine's Water to Crimea

Jun 12, 2022 | Jason Beaubien, NPR

Two days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February, Russian military forces blew up a dam that Ukraine had built to cut off Crimea's…

New Report: Why Climate Change Impacts Women Differently Than Men

Jun 10, 2022 | UNFCCC

Ukraine/Russia: Putin Admits Ukraine Invasion Is an Imperial War to “Return” Russian Land

Jun 10, 2022 | Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council

Throughout the past few months, Vladimir Putin has offered up all manner of outlandish excuses for his invasion of Ukraine. At various different times he…

Colombia: Illegal Destruction in Colombia: Amazon Rainforest under Threat [Video]

Jun 10, 2022 | Alessandro Rampietti, Al Jazeera

Deforestation and fires in Colombia's Amazon are destroying hundreds of thousands of hectares of rainforest every year to make space for cattle ranching, mining and…

Water Wars: The Water Wars Myth: When Water Runs Short, Do We Have to Fight?

Jun 9, 2022 | Giulio Boccaletti, OpenMind

"Water shortages are brewing wars,” warned the BBC last year. People who worry about climate change are drawn to this dramatic, high-stakes idea. After all,…

Belgium: Women in Conflicts - Brussels Declaration on Actions Towards Empowering Women

Jun 9, 2022 | European Council

Women continue to be particularly affected by conflict situations: whether as civilians in directly affected areas, as refugees, or as persons directly targeted. At the same time, women contribute…

Colombia: Colombia's Extractive Industries Watching Election Warily

Jun 8, 2022 | Oliver Griffin, Reuters

Colombia's leftist firebrand presidential candidate Gustavo Petro is too close in recent polls for the comfort of oil companies and miners who worry that his…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Pro-Iran Militias ‘Seizing Kurdish Oil Resources’

Jun 8, 2022 | GDNonline

Pro-Iranian militias have seized half of the Iraqi oil resources, at a time when disputes are raging between Baghdad and Erbil over who manages oil…

DRC: Irregularities Uncovered at State-Owned DRC Mining Company

Jun 8, 2022 | Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

The anti-corruption agency of the Democratic Republic of Congo has identified numerous irregularities in the management of the state-owned mining company, Gecamines, which it says…

Afghanistan: Taliban Extends Bidding Period for Large-Scale Metal Mines

Jun 7, 2022 | Asian News International

The Taliban on Tuesday extended the bidding period for the extraction of two large-scale metal mines in western provinces - Herat and Ghor. The Ministry…

Liberia: High-Level UN Peacebuilding Commission Delegation Arrives in Liberia

Jun 6, 2022 | Front Page Africa

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: Congo Ombudsman Says Millions Lost at State Mining Firm

Jun 6, 2022 | Africanews with AFP

The Democratic Republic of Congo's Inspectorate General of Finance (IGF), in a report revealed on Saturday, points to numerous irregularities in the management of the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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: 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…

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…

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…

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…