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Afghanistan: UNICEF Representative: Water Crisis in Afghanistan Is Worsening

Oct 24, 2026
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

The water crisis has become one of Afghanistan’s major challenges in recent years, making access to water increasingly difficult for the population.

Afghanistan/Iran/Pakistan: After Taliban Opium Ban, New Global Hub Emerges in Afghan Borderlands with Iran, Pakistan

Oct 24, 2026 | Frud Bezhan and Daud Khattak
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Afghanistan's opium output, long the world's largest, has plunged since the Taliban imposed a sweeping ban on illicit narcotics in 2022. But the militant Islamist…

Joint Civil Society Statement on the Environment, Peace and Security Delivered to the UN General Assembly First Committee

Oct 23, 2026
Conflict and Environment Observatory

Statement drafted by CEOBS and delivered by Melissa Bushi of Pace University. For more exploration of the themes in this statement see the chapter on…

Afghanistan: OCHA: 8,000 People Gain Access to Safe Drinking Water in Three Provinces

Oct 22, 2026 | Mohammad Farhaad
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced that 8,000 people in parts of Badakhshan, Baghlan and Takhar provinces have…

CAR: NCF Statement to the UN on Conflict Minerals in the Central African Republic

Oct 22, 2026 | Manisha Shrivastava
Next Century Foundation

Next Century Foundation’s Research Officer Manisha Shrivastava addresses the United Nations Human Rights Council in person on conflict minerals and accountability in the Central African…

Equal by Law, Left Out in Practice: Why Kosovo’s Women Still Lose Property

Oct 21, 2026 | Prishtina Insight

Kosovo law makes clear that women and men inherit equally, yet in many cases, only men inherit, while women are still cut out.

This inequality still…

Afghanistan: Mining Control, Factional Rivalries Continue to Fuel Unrest in Northern Afghanistan

Oct 21, 2026
Associated Press of Pakistan

Unresolved internal disputes over mining control, revenue distribution, and local rights are driving ongoing violence and unrest in northern Afghanistan, according to a comprehensive report…

Climate Change: World-First Taskforce to Protect Communities from Climate Change

Oct 21, 2026
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Katie White OBE MP, and Baroness Twycross

Communities across the UK will be better protected against the growing threats of climate change, as the world’s first Climate and Nature Security Taskforce met…

Sudan/South Sudan: Drone Strike on a Market in Disputed African Region of Abyei Kills at Least 153

Oct 20, 2026
Associated Press

A drone strike on a market in Abyei, a border region disputed by Sudan and South Sudan, hit a nearby fuel depot, killing at least…

Afghanistan: Man Killed in Land Dispute in Afghanistan’s Logar Province

Oct 20, 2026 | Nazanin Mohseni
KabulNow

A man has been killed and his father injured in a land dispute involving family members in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Afghanistan’s Logar province, local…

Palestine: Gaza Faces Food Security Crisis as Aid Reductions Deepen

Oct 20, 2026
Global Arab Network Editorial Team

A humanitarian crisis is intensifying in the Gaza Strip as nearly half a million people face the loss of essential food assistance. The World Food…

Ethiopia: A Look at How Ethiopia’s Wars, Sea Ambitions and Nile Dam Fuel Fears of Wider Conflict

Oct 19, 2026 | Khaled Kazziha
Associated Press

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for making peace with neighboring Eritrea. A year later, their armies joined forces…

Myanmar: Residents Concerned as KNA Measures Land in Myanmar’s Karen State Without Prior Notice

Oct 19, 2026
Karen News

Residents across Nabu Township in Myanmar’s Karen State are expressing deep anxiety after the Karen National Army (KNA) surveyed and measured their agricultural land without…

Sudan: Sudan’s Famine Risk Worsened by Conflict, Drought and Funding Shortages, Report Says

Oct 19, 2026
Associated Press

Conflict and drought are worsening food insecurity across parts of Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions, a global food crisis monitor warned on Monday.

DRC: War and Minerals: Erik Prince and Paramilitaries in DR Congo

Oct 16, 2026
Agence France-Presse

US businessman Erik Prince and his mercenaries have emerged as key players in the war-stricken Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), fighting for its government as…

Iran: Iran’s Pezeshkian Denounces War-Driven ‘Ecocide’ at UN Biodiversity Summit

Oct 16, 2026
The Climate Watch

Iranian president says countries facing sanctions and military aggression should not bear environmental costs alone, calls for stronger global accountability and protection of nature during…

We Will Not Keep Quiet on Land Ownership Rights — Women Activists

Oct 15, 2026 | Ibrahim Ruhweza (New Vision)

Women's rights activists have vowed to intensify their campaign for women's land ownership and inheritance rights, saying they will not remain silent while cultural practices and…

Liberia: Rural Women's Land Rights Take Center Stage at Liberia Forum

Oct 15, 2026 | Emery Watson
Observer

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has opened a three-day national celebration and action forum for rural women in Buchanan, putting land rights…

Afghanistan/Saudi Arabia: Taliban Invites Saudi Arabia to Explore Renewable Energy Investment in Afghanistan

Oct 15, 2026
Afghanistan International

The Taliban’s water and energy minister has discussed solar and wind power cooperation with a Saudi energy official. The Taliban says a Saudi technical delegation…

Afghanistan: UN: 38% of Afghanistan’s Population to Face Food Insecurity This Winter

Oct 15, 2026 | Mohammad Farhaad
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have warned that 19.2 million people in Afghanistan are…

India: Water Wars Erupt in Telangana, Farmers Fight Pitched Battles

Oct 14, 2026 | Balu Pulipaka
Deccan Chronicle

Desperate farmers in Telangana, trying to save their standing crops, have begun attacking each other, as well as taking extreme measures of “sealing” irrigation canals…

Sudan: Roseires Dam: Water Security and the War in Sudan

Oct 14, 2026 | Mohammed Hilali
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

The ongoing war in Sudan continues to expand its destructive reach, engulfing essential infrastructure and public services. In Blue Nile State in southeastern Sudan, fierce…

From Rural Initiatives to Parliamentary Decisions: Women of the Fergana Valley Develop Solutions for Water Conservation and Rural Community Development

Oct 13, 2026 | United Nations Development Program

Women from rural communities in the Batken, Osh, and Jalal-Abad regions presented their initiatives on improving access to irrigation water, climate change adaptation, and reducing…