International
Sudan/South Sudan: Sudan and South Sudan Discuss Oil Transit and Regional Stability in Khartoum
Jul 30, 2026
Sudan Tribune
Sovereign Council head and Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan held talks on Wednesday with Tut Gatluak, security advisor to the president of South Sudan,…
Afghanistan: Excessive Groundwater Extraction Threatens Herat's Water Resources
Jul 30, 2026
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Nasir Ahmad Salehi
TOLOnews
The drilling of deep wells and the extraction of groundwater using solar-powered pumps have placed groundwater resources in Herat Province under serious threat. Local officials…
India: River of Conflict: Why the CWRC's 3,500-Cusec Cauvery Water Order Has Ignited Mass Protests in Karnataka
Jul 29, 2026
Streamline
Thousands of furious farmers have aggressively blockaded major arterial highways across Karnataka's agricultural heartland, setting barricades ablaze and paralyzing transit routes in absolute defiance of…
Afghanistan/Uzbekistan: Implementation of "Friendship Orchards" Project Begins in Afghanistan
Jul 29, 2026
UzDaily
The practical implementation of the "Friendship Orchards" project, aimed at developing agricultural cooperation between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, has commenced in Afghanistan's Faryab Province.
Conflict Minerals: Accra Hosts High-Level Conference on Governance, Critical Minerals, and Conflicts in Africa
Jul 28, 2026
Financial Afrik
A high-level conference on governance, critical minerals, and conflicts in Africa opens this Monday, July 27 in Accra, Ghana. It comes at a time when…
DRC/Rwanda: The War That Was Avoidable: How Rwanda–DRC Cooperation Threatened Old Interests
Jul 27, 2026
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Bojana Coulibaly
Pan African Review
Between February and June 2021, the DRC and Rwanda signed a series of bilateral security and economic agreements that broke with decades of practice. For…
Critical Minerals: Open Society Foundations Convenes African Experts for High-Level Conference on Critical Minerals, Governance and Conflicts
Jul 27, 2026
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Isaac Donkor
Modern Ghana
The conference examines how the governance of critical minerals can advance economic justice, conflict prevention and the protection of communities in resource-rich areas through transparency,…
Critical Minerals: Africa’s Mineral Boom Must Not Become Another Resource Curse – MiDA CEO
Jul 27, 2026
Joy Business
The Acting Chief Executive of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), Alexander Kofi-Mensah Mould, has cautioned African leaders and policymakers against allowing the continent’s emerging critical minerals…
DRC: DRC to Enforce 10% Equity Transfer to Nationals in Mining Companies
Jul 25, 2026
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Fidelis Daicy
Mjengo Hub
The Democratic Republic of Congo will implement a law requiring mining companies to transfer 10 percent equity to Congolese nationals. Of this, half (5 percent)…
Critical Minerals: UN Debate Puts Spotlight on Critical Minerals Governance
Jul 25, 2026
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Lesego Lebuso
Channel Africa
Critical minerals must support clean energy, development and peace rather than fuel conflict, corruption and unequal extraction, United Nations Security Council members have warned.
Egypt/Sudan: Falling Nile River Levels Spark Growing Fears among Sudanese Farmers amid Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Concerns
Jul 24, 2026
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Ahmad Elassasy
Sada Elbalad English
Declining water levels along the Nile River during July have sparked widespread concern among Sudanese farmers, raising renewed questions across Sudan and neighboring Egypt regarding…
Myanmar: How War in Myanmar Is Driving a Deadly Rare Earth Mining Boom
Jul 23, 2026
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Emily Fishbein and Jauman Naw
Grist
Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.
DRC: Critical Minerals Must Be Treated as a Peace, Security Issue
Jul 22, 2026
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Lesego Lebuso
Channel Africa
The United Nations (UN) Security Council has debated whether rising demand for critical minerals will support development or deepen conflict, corruption and inequality.
DRC: Congo’s Local Ownership Rule for Miners: 2026 Enforcement Explained
Jul 22, 2026
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Muflih Hidayat
Discovery Alert
Across the African continent, a structural shift has been building for decades. Resource-rich nations that once surrendered favourable terms to attract foreign capital are now…
Colombia: Papaya Helps Rebuild Livelihoods and Trust in Rural Colombia
Jul 22, 2026
Fruit Today
In Los Montes de María, a region deeply affected by armed conflict, the ASOAGROPAT association has turned papaya growing into a source of income, community…
DRC: Ebola Curbs Strain US-Congo Minerals Pact
Jul 21, 2026
Miningmx
US travel restrictions imposed over Congo’s Ebola outbreak are complicating a fledgling economic partnership between the two nations.
Afghanistan: Parched Lands: Climate Change Is Destroying Afghanistan’s Agriculture
Jul 21, 2026
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Fakhruddin Qarizada
The Killid Group
Declining rainfall, recurring droughts, and increasingly extreme climate conditions have pushed Afghanistan’s agricultural sector into a deepening crisis. Farmers across the country say shrinking harvests…
Afghanistan: Badakhshan Mine Workers Protest Taliban Ban on Mining
Jul 21, 2026
Afghanistan International
A number of mine workers in Badakhshan protested on Tuesday over the Taliban’s continued closure of mining sites, saying Taliban forces threatened and beat some…
Palestine: In Gaza, a Mother's Hunt for Water Lays Bare a Worsening Health Crisis
Jul 21, 2026
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Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
Reuters
Aid agencies, UN officials and Palestinian health authorities warn that Gaza is facing an unprecedented collapse of its water and sanitation systems, leaving much of…
IGAD Launches Initiative to Strengthen Women’s Economic Resilience and Inclusive Peacebuilding in Somalia
Jul 20, 2026
Intergovernmental Authority on Development
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), with financial support from the African Development Bank (AfDB) through the Transition Support Facility (TSF), has officially launched the…
Liberia: Cocoa Rush Overruns Liberian County Once 99 Percent Forested
Jul 19, 2026
WOODCENTRAL
Grand Gedeh has lost more forest in a single year than any Liberian county on record since 2002, with an unpublished government count putting migrant…
Liberia: Something Strange Is Happening in Liberia
Jul 19, 2026
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Ashoka Mukpo and Juan Maza
Mongabay
Liberia is losing its rainforest at an alarming rate. Satellite data reveals rapid deforestation across one of West Africa’s last remaining intact rainforests, driven largely…
Climate Change: The Impossible Politics of Climate Security
Jul 19, 2026
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Hammad Sarfraz
Express Tribune
Ashok Swain’s Climate Security is not a comfortable book, nor does it pretend to be. At a time when climate anxiety is increasingly wrapped in…
DRC: Congo Begins First-Ever Lithium Exports to China, Unlocking the World’s Largest Undeveloped Hard-Rock Reserves
Jul 18, 2026
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Awogbemila Temitope
Business Insider
A new report has revealed that China's mining company, Zijin has started exporting lithium concentrate from its Manono project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.…
Liberia: Liberia’s Landmark Land Rights Law Risks Falling Short
Jul 17, 2026
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Lincoln G. Peters
New Dawn
Eight years after Liberia enacted the Land Rights Act of 2018, government officials, lawmakers, civil society organizations, and development partners have warned that the initiative…
Liberia: ‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the Scenes with Mongabay
Jul 17, 2026
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Ashoka Mukpo
Mongabay
Mongabay’s investigation into deforestation in Liberia started with a tip from a source last year.
Food Security: UN Food Agency Says Conflict Is Pushing Healthy Diets beyond Reach Worldwide
Jul 16, 2026
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Namo Abdulla
Rudaw
A healthy diet is slipping beyond reach for a growing number of people around the world as conflict drives up the cost of fuel, fertilizer…
Afghanistan: Taliban Administration Discusses Climate Projects with UN Officials
Jul 16, 2026
Atlas Press
The Taliban Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock has announced that Mawlawi Attaullah Omari, acting head of the ministry, met with the head of the…
China/Myanmar/Thailand: Northern River Pollution Prompts Diplomatic Push
Jul 16, 2026
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Aekarach Sattaburuth
Bangkok Post
The opposition People's Party (PP) on Wednesday urged the government to lead efforts to tackle river pollution in northern Thailand, saying evidence suggests contamination may…
Liberia: Why Are Forests Vanishing in Southeastern Liberia? [Video]
Jul 16, 2026
Mongabay
In the past century, most of West Africa’s Upper Guinean rainforest has been lost to commercial agriculture, infrastructure development and logging. More than half of…