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Afghanistan: Afghanistan Holds Two-Day Environmental Conference in Nangarhar

Aug 18, 2025 | Sadaqat Ghorzang
TOLOnews

Environmental experts emphasized the need to develop a comprehensive strategy for environmental protection.

Liberia: Land Authority Charges Towns Nearly US$12K to Resolve Boundary Dispute

Aug 18, 2025 | Carlucci Cooper
The Daylight

The Liberia Land Authority has charged two communities in Grand Gedeh County US$11,900 to cut their boundary, dragging a dispute over Burkinabe cocoa farmers.

Afghanistan: From Drought to Floods, Water Extremes Drive Displacement in Afghanistan

Aug 16, 2025 | Susannah Walden and Qubad Wali
Agence France-Presse

The water cycle has been sharply impacted, with Afghanistan again in the grip of drought for the fourth time in five years and flash floods…

DRC: What Stands between the DRC and Lasting Peace? [Video]

Aug 15, 2025
TRT World

For decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has witnessed one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II — yet the world remains largely…

Food Security: Starvation Is a War Crime, but Will Justice Ever Be Done?

Aug 15, 2025 | Cathrin Schaer
Deutsche Welle

Experts say that food is increasingly being used as a weapon in conflicts in places like Sudan, Syria and Gaza. But there's never been a…

India/Pakistan: India Faces Diplomatic Challenge after Rejecting Jurisdiction of International Court on Water Treaty

Aug 15, 2025 | Kazim Alam
TRT Global

India may find itself in a diplomatic quagmire after rejecting an international court’s ruling that New Delhi must allow the unimpeded flow of western rivers…

Liberia: Liberia Land Authority Targets Double Land Sales in Bong County

Aug 15, 2025 | Princess Flomo
Libierian Investigator

In communities across Liberia, from crowded urban margins to remote rural districts, land disputes rooted in overlapping claims, customary ambiguities, and corrupt practices continue to…

Liberia: Burkinabés Clash over Land in Grand Gedeh

Aug 15, 2025 | Ishmael F. Menkor
Observer

Tension is said to be mounting in Grand Gedeh County between two groups of Burkinabé over farmlands, causing fear among the locals. Reports reaching the…

Nigeria: Plateau State Trains Officials in Peacebuilding through Land Dispute Mediation

Aug 14, 2025 | Roger A. Agana
News Ghana

Government workers from four key Plateau State agencies transformed into certified peace mediators this week after intensive training in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques.

Climate Change: Why Women, Peace and Security Plans in the Mediterranean Must Confront Climate Risks

Aug 14, 2025 | Ibukun Taiwo
CGIAR

Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) National Action Plans are a powerful but underused tool for tackling the interconnected challenges of gender, climate, and conflict. Across…

DRC: Inside the Mine that Feeds the Tech World – and Funds Congo’s Rebels

Aug 13, 2025 | Giulia Paravicini and David Lewis
Reuters

Rubaya produces around 15% of the world’s coltan, all dug manually by impoverished locals who earn a few dollars per day. Control of this mine…

Iraq: ‘It’s Destruction Disguised as Progress’: How the Oil Industry Is Sucking Iraq’s Ancient Wetlands Dry

Aug 13, 2025 | Azhar Al-Rubaie, Sara Manisera, and Daniela Sala
Guardian

Hawizeh’s wetlands once had abundant fishing and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the water.

Iraq/Kurdistan: KRG, Baghdad Agree Deal to Resume Kurdish Oil Exports

Aug 13, 2025
Rudaw

The Kurdistan Region’s natural resources ministry said on Wednesday that Erbil and Baghdad have reached an agreement on the mechanism of resuming the Region’s long-delayed…

DRC: US Imposes Sanctions over DR Congo Minerals Sales

Aug 13, 2025 | Yinka Adegoke
Semafor

The Trump administration sanctioned four entities over their role in the critical minerals trade in eastern DR Congo as it seeks to implement a peace…

China: Is China Moving into Position to Take over Iraq’s Key Oil Project from the West?

Aug 12, 2025 | Simon Watkins
Oilprice.com

The Common Seawater Supply Project (CSSP) is the key to unlock massive gains in oil output from Iraq. Consequently, control over the project is pivotal…

DRC: US Announces Sanctions against Armed Group and Companies Profiting from Conflict Minerals in Congo

Aug 12, 2025 | Marck Banchereau, Jean-Yves Kamale, and Justin Kabumba
Associated Press

The US government on Tuesday sanctioned an armed group accused of illicit trading in minerals in eastern Congo as Washington tries to spearhead peace efforts there…

Iraq/Syria: Syria and Iraq to Discuss Revival of Decades-Old Cross-Border Oil Pipeline

Aug 12, 2025 | Daniel Onyango
Pipeline Technology Journal

Syria’s energy minister, Mohammed Al-Bashir, has hinted at plans to visit Iraq to discuss reviving a defunct oil pipeline that previously transported crude from northern…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Somalia: Somalia Caught in Crossfire of Ethiopia-Egypt Nile Dispute

Aug 11, 2025
The Weekly Vision

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has accused Ethiopia of violating international law by filling the GERD with Nile waters, warning that Egypt reserves the right…

Food Security: FAO Launches the Risk Monitor: A New Early Warning System to Tackle Food Security Risks

Aug 11, 2025
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

On the sidelines of the 44th Session of the FAO Conference, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) officially launched the first Food…

Liberia: House Speaker Koon Pledges Action on Rural Women’s Land Rights

Aug 11, 2025 | Francis G. Boayue
Front Page Africa

MONROVIA – House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon has vowed to champion legislative reforms aimed at empowering rural women and strengthening land rights across Liberia. His…

Afghanistan: Environmental Impacts of Nearly 20 Year War in Afghanistan Linger after US Withdrawal

Aug 9, 2025
Bastille Post

Twenty years after the US military operations in Afghanistan, the toxic legacy still lives on in the drying water and contaminated soil across the country.

Colombia/Peru: Colombian President Stirs up Border Tension over Santa Rosa Island: ‘The Treaty Has Not Been Complied with, Peru Violated It’

Aug 8, 2025 | Santiago Torrado
EL PAÍS

Tensions are escalating. Colombian President Gustavo Petro doubled down on Thursday on his territorial claim to an island in the Amazon River that has emerged…