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Afghanistan: Taliban Extends Bidding Period for Large-Scale Metal Mines
Jun 7, 2022
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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…
Apply Now! Call for 7th Annual ‘Gender-Just Climate Solutions’ Award Open
Jun 6, 2022
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Women Gender Constituency
These awards showcase real solutions for a just, healthy and sustainable planet.
All types of activist, grassroots, women-led and gender equality organizations and groups working on…
Liberia: High-Level UN Peacebuilding Commission Delegation Arrives in Liberia
Jun 6, 2022
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Front Page Africa
Lebanon: Lebanon Urges US Envoy to End Maritime Dispute with Israel
Jun 6, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Navy’s Climate Strategy Aims to Build Resilience against Readiness Challenges
Jun 4, 2022
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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…
Colombia: Colombia Court Orders Penalties for President, Cites National Park
Jun 4, 2022
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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
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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…
Sustaining Shared Waters: An African Case Study
Jun 3, 2022
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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…
Central African Republic Wants to Tokenize Mineral Resources
Jun 3, 2022
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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…
In a Time of Competing Crises, Environmental Action Matters More Than Ever
Jun 3, 2022
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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…
Here's How Environmental Democracy Can Help Peace in Latin America
Jun 3, 2022
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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…
Iraq: 'It's a Mass Ecological Crisis': Extreme Weather in Iraq Hits Those Already Struggling the Hardest
Jun 3, 2022
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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,…
In a Time of Competing Crises, Environmental Action Matters More than Ever
Jun 3, 2022
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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…
Colombia: IACHR Reveals Colombia's Failure to Provide Information on Members of the Public Force Investigated for Abuses
Jun 3, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Call for Applications: Support to Environmental Organizations on Conflict Sensitivity
May 31, 2022
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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
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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…
Somalia: Enhancing Livelihoods and Business Skills for Vulnerable Women in Somalia
May 31, 2022
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African Business
DRC: Chinese Companies Linked to Illegal Logging and Mining in Northern DRC
May 31, 2022
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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…
DRC: DRC Needs to Dig Deeper in Mines for Electric Cars Battery Minerals
May 31, 2022
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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…
Ukraine: Mass Civil Legal Action to Seek Compensation for Ukrainian War Victims
May 31, 2022
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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
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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…
Colombia: Land or Death: Colombia’s Indigenous Land Wars [Video]
May 30, 2022
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Sebastian Pena and Jesper Klemedsson Sotomayor, Al Jazeera and Witness
Colombia has become one of the world’s deadliest places for land rights defenders since a power vacuum emerged after the government signed a historic peace…