International
Afghanistan: Women Mushroom Farmers in Kabul Seek Cold Storages
Sep 2, 2025
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Sonita Azizi
Pajhwok Afghan News
A number of women in Kabul, working with diligent hands and hopeful hearts to cultivate mushrooms using straw, lime and bran, say they need cold…
Afghanistan: Afghan Activists Urge UN to Halt Hazara Displacement and Land Seizures
Sep 1, 2025
ShiaWaves
Over 100 Afghan civil society groups and human rights activists have called on the United Nations to intervene urgently to stop the systematic displacement and…
Bangladsesh: Govt. Prioritizes Swift Compensation for Victims of Human-Elephant Conflict: Rizwana
Sep 1, 2025
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan today reaffirmed the government's commitment to promoting peaceful human-elephant coexistence, saying that streamlining and revising current…
Afghanistan: Eastern Afghanistan Earthquakes Threaten Livestock Farming and Family Income Sources
Sep 1, 2025
Hasht-E Subh
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that the devastating earthquakes in eastern Afghanistan severely threaten the livestock sector.
Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Chinese Gold Mining Provokes Battle between Taliban and Tajikistan
Sep 1, 2025
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Dmytro Shumlianskyi
MILITARNYI
The first military clash in three years between Tajik border guards and TDF militants took place on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The clash…
Sudan/South Sudan: Sudan Orders Oil Shutdown; South Sudan Exports at Risk
Aug 31, 2025
Radio Tamazuj
Sudan’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has ordered an emergency shutdown of oil facilities in the Heglig area near the border with South Sudan following…
Myanmar: Myanmar Rare Earth Mines Surge in Rebel-Held Areas, Fuelling Toxic Risks
Aug 30, 2025
Nation
When it comes to rare earths, the world almost instinctively looks to China. The country is not only the global leader in rare earth processing,…
Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Armed Clash Erupts between Afghanistan and Tajikistan over Border Dispute and Mining Activities
Aug 30, 2025
AKIpress News Agency
An armed conflict occurred on August 24 in the Dawang border area of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province between Taliban forces and Tajikistan. One Taliban fighter was…
Liberia: Liberian Communities Await Justice at Salala Rubber Plantation after World Bank Complaint
Aug 29, 2025
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Victoria Schneider
Mongabay
Five months after the World Bank’s private investment arm submitted its action plan to address community grievances against a rubber plantation it funds in Liberia,…
Afghanistan/China: Contract Breach or Banditry? Inside the Collapse of the Taliban's Oil Deal with China
Aug 29, 2025
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Anthony Kuhn and Vincent Ni
NPR
Turbaned Afghan officials and hard-hatted Chinese engineers gathered in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province in 2023 to mark the opening of Chinese-invested oil fields. The fields are…
Afghanistan: Foreign Investors Invited to Invest in Afghanistan's Mining Sector
Aug 28, 2025
TOLOnews
In a speech at Tatarstan's Oil and Gas Industrial Forum, Minister of Mines and Petroleum Hedayatullah Badri highlighted Afghanistan's vast oil and gas reserves and…
Myanmar: Over 1,300 Protected Forests across Myanmar Require Legal Protection
Aug 26, 2025
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Htet Nadi and Thet Paing
NP News
Myanmar has established and designated 1,328 reserved and protected forests as of July 31, 2025, according to data provided to The Statesman by the Forest…
Colombia: SIPRI Co-Hosts Policy Events on Climate Justice in Colombia
Aug 26, 2025
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
On 13–14 August 2025, SIPRI co-hosted a series of meetings in Bogotá, Colombia. The events brought together Colombian policymakers, regional specialists and civil society groups.…
Myanmar: Myanmar Junta Recaptures Mandalay Gold Mine
Aug 26, 2025
Irrawaddy
The military regime has taken back control of the sprawling Phayaung Taung gold mine on the border of Madaya, Patheingyi, and Pyin Oo Lwin townships…
Israel/Lebanon: 'When Bombs Turn Taps off': Israel Wrecks Lebanon's Water Systems Despite Ceasefire
Aug 26, 2025
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Sarah Khalil
New Arab
Six months after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was meant to halt fighting in Lebanon, violations persist, and hundreds of thousands of civilians remain…
Israel/Syria: Damascus Is Running out of Water. The Culprit? Climate Change, Conflict...and Israeli Land Grabs
Aug 26, 2025
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Youssef Al Ibrahim
New Arab
For the first time in half a century, Damascus and its surrounding countryside are experiencing an unprecedented water shortage that has forced authorities to implement…
Afghanistan: Taliban Announce Confiscation of Vast Tracts of Land in Logar
Aug 25, 2025
Afghanistan International
The Taliban say they have confiscated more than 1,400 acres of land in Logar province, classifying it as state property. The Taliban have established the…
Somalia: Seeds of Recovery: Somali-Led Solutions at a Turning Point
Aug 25, 2025
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Claudia McGoldrick
International Organization for Migration
For decades, Somalia has been defined by crisis – conflict, drought, floods, displacement, and insecurity. But today, across this complex, proud, and resilient country, a…
DRC: Congo’s Mineral Curse Fuels US-China Rivalry
Aug 25, 2025
Lowy Institute
The Democratic Republic of Congo is again at the centre of one of the world’s most severe humanitarian and security crises. Despite the public headlines…
Ukraine/Russia: Ukraine War Briefing: Water Crisis in Russian-Held Donetsk as Canal Eludes Capture
Aug 25, 2025
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Warren Murray
Guardian
The illegally appointed head of the partly Russian-held Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine has said a water crisis that is forcing people to queue at…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Builds 120 Onion Cold Storage Facilities to Strengthen Food Security in Rural Areas
Aug 24, 2025
Xinhua
A total of 120 onion cold storage facilities are under construction across provinces with the financial support of the World Bank in Afghanistan. According to…
Afghanistan: Farmers in Herat Turn to Drip Irrigation amid Ongoing Drought
Aug 23, 2025
TOLOnews
Over the past year, the drip irrigation system has expanded in several districts of Herat. Drought and water shortages have forced farmers to adopt this…
Afghanistan/Iran: Iran Steps up Pressure on Taliban over Helmand River Water Rights
Aug 23, 2025
Afghanistan International
Iran has accused the Taliban of failing to honour a key water treaty and vowed to intensify pressure on the group to secure its share…
Ukraine/Russia: Parts of Russia Face Gasoline Shortages after Ukraine Struck Refineries
Aug 21, 2025
Reuters
Several regions in Russia and parts of Ukraine it controls are reporting gasoline shortages after Ukraine stepped up attacks on Russian oil refineries this month,…
Afghanistan: Water Extremes Drive People from Homes in Afghanistan
Aug 21, 2025
Agence France-Presse
Successive wars displaced Afghans over 40 years, but peace has not brought reprieve, as climate change-fuelled shocks drive people from their homes and strain livelihoods.
Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Water Predicament Goes Regional
Aug 21, 2025
Middle East NorthAfrica Financial Network
After decades of war that left it with little authority over its five major river basins, Afghanistan is now asserting greater control of its water…
Liberia: Journalists Condemn Proposal to Degazette Sapo National Park, Warn of International Fallout
Aug 21, 2025
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Francis G. Boayue
FrontPage Africa
The Journalists for the Protection of Nature (JPN-Liberia) has strongly condemned a proposal by Sinoe County Representative, Romeo Quiah, to degazette the Sapo National Park,…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Holds Two-Day Environmental Conference in Nangarhar
Aug 18, 2025
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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
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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
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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…