International
Afghanistan/Iran: Taliban Express Readiness to Settle Water Dispute with Iran
Oct 5, 2025
Afghanistan International
Iranian media reported that Taliban officials have expressed readiness to resolve the long-standing water rights dispute with Iran during a meeting with the acting head…
Afghanistan: Energy Conservation: The Key to Lifting Afghanistan out of Darkness and Poverty
Oct 5, 2025
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Kazim Homayoun
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
In today’s Afghanistan, energy conservation is not merely an environmental slogan; it is an economic, social, and security necessity. A country that imports most of…
Egypt/Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Egypt Trade Accusations over GERD’s Role in Nile Floods
Oct 4, 2025
Sudan Tribune
Ethiopia and Egypt have exchanged sharp accusations over the management of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), with each country blaming the other for recent…
DRC: The Resource War: How Minerals Fuel the Conflict in Congo
Oct 4, 2025
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Dragos Alexandru Ionita
Modern Diplomacy
In Central Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo is once again facing an escalating conflict between the government forces and the March 23 rebel movement.…
Land/Food Security: Experts Warn: Land Rights Disputes Hurt Food Security
Oct 4, 2025
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Patricia Tembo
Food For Mzansi
The Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (CoRE-SFS), hosted by the University of Pretoria, recently held a webinar series tackling key themes…
DRC: Beans that Break the Cycle: Food, Freedom and Female Power in DRC
Oct 3, 2025
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Bola Amoke Awotide, Julie Ntawinja, Yohane Chideya, Hosny Dunia, Richard Kataliko, Lucky Kalisya, and Jean Claude Rubyogo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT
In eastern DRC, women are reclaiming land through the B4WE project, using biofortified beans to fight malnutrition, gain economic independence, and foster peace. Farming is…
Afghanistan: Kabul Residents Face Severe Water Shortages, Call for Urgent Action
Oct 3, 2025
Asian News International
Residents of Kabul's District 5 have raised alarm over a worsening water crisis, complaining that they lack daily access to clean drinking water.
Sri Lanka: Landmark UN Study Links Climate Change, Gender, and Security Risks in Sri Lanka
Oct 2, 2025
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UNDP
Newswire
The United Nations launched a landmark study on how climate change, gender and security in Sri Lanka are interconnected. Commissioned by the Joint UN Development…
Colombia: Victims of Colombian Conflict Given Land from Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Ranch
Oct 2, 2025
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James Reynolds
Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’.
President Gustavo Petro…
Liberia: Liberia Awards Customary Land Deeds to Communities
Oct 2, 2025
Global News Network Liberia
The historic event marked the official recognition of land ownership for 23 communities that have completed the Confirmation Survey and Customary Land Formalization (CLF) process.…
Iraq: Iraq Activates Contract with BP to Develop Kirkuk Oilfields, Initial Target of 328,000 bpd
Oct 2, 2025
Asharq Al Awsat
Iraq has activated a contract with BP to develop Kirkuk oilfields, targeting preliminary production of 328,000 barrels per day, the country's oil minister said on…
Liberia: FAO Calls for Clearer Land and Forest Rights in Liberia
Oct 1, 2025
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Francis G. Boayue
FrontPage Africa
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening natural resource governance in Liberia, urging reforms to clarify…
Afghanistan: Stripped of Inheritance, Women in Afghanistan Are Denied Even Their Own Property
Sep 28, 2025
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Elina Qalam
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
Women in Kabul say that the patriarchal structure of society has deprived them of their right to ownership. They explain that because of stereotypes and…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Resumes Kurdish Oil Exports to Turkiye after Two-and-a-Half-Year Halt
Sep 27, 2025
Al Jazeera
Iraq has resumed crude oil exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to Turkiye after an interim deal broke a two-and-a-half-year deadlock over legal and technical…
Afghanistan: Did Restrictions on Women Workers Hamper Afghanistan’s Earthquake Response?
Sep 27, 2025
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Ruchi Kumar
Al Jazeera
In 2022, the Taliban government banned women from working in NGOs operating in the country. A year later, it also forbade Afghan women from working…
South Sudan: Climate Security Risks Brewing in South Sudan as Floods Escalate in Many Parts of the Country: A Case of Panyijiar
Sep 25, 2025
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Amos Agiro
UNDP
Catastrophic flooding in Panyijiar County has displaced more than 100,000 people, including 45,000 children and 26,000 women. Entire communities now struggle to survive, as floodwaters…
Bangladesh/Myanmar: Myanmar Put Landmines along the Cox’s Bazar Borders of Bangladesh to Stop Cow Smugglers
Sep 25, 2025
Hindu Voice
What was once a border meant to separate two nations has, for Bangladeshis living in Cox’s Bazar, become a deadly minefield. For the past eight…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Eight Oil Companies Reach Agreement with Iraq, KRG to Resume Oil Exports
Sep 25, 2025
Reuters
Eight oil companies operating in Iraqi Kurdistan, representing over 90% of production, reached agreements in principle with Iraq's federal and Kurdish regional government (KRG) to…
Afghanistan: Kabul’s Highland Residents Struggle amid Severe Water Shortages
Sep 25, 2025
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Bibi Amina Hakimi
TOLOnews
In the high slopes of Kabul, where houses are built on the mountain sides, people's lives tell a different story of hardships. Residents of these…
Sunk Debris from World Wars Provides Home for Wildlife
Sep 25, 2025
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Robert Egan
Nature Publishing Group
More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea's seabed than on the sediment surrounding it. The…
Liberia: Mapping Liberia’s Fishing Future: New Study Highlights Urgent Need to Protect Landing Sites and Fishers’ Rights
Sep 25, 2025
Environmental Justice Foundation
Liberia’s small-scale fisheries are the backbone of coastal livelihoods, but they face mounting threats from coastal erosion, mangrove destruction, and insecure land rights. Fishing communities’…
Pakistan: Maryam Announces Special Courts for Land-Grabbing Cases
Sep 25, 2025
The News
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz announced new legislation to eliminate land grabbing targeting orphans, widows, and underprivileged citizens in the province. She also announced the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi PM Announces ‘Historic’ Deal to Resume Kurdish Oil Exports
Sep 25, 2025
Rudaw
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Thursday announced that his government has reached a "historic agreement" with the Kurdistan Region to resume Kurdish oil…
Climate Change: Baku Hub Partnership: Innovative Climate-Peace Solutions for Conflict Affected and Vulnerable Contexts
Sep 24, 2025
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Shoko Noda
UNDP
Time and time again, one barrier stands out: access to climate finance. We heard this clearly at the second Africa Climate Summit earlier this month,…
Liberia: Rural Communities Get Safe Drinking Water Facilities
Sep 23, 2025
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Emery Watson
Observer
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), through the Accelerated Community Development Programme (ACDP), will formally turn over four state-of-the-art solar-powered water facilities valued at $334,847.28…
South Sudan: More Than $2.2bn Diverted from Oil in South Sudan, Says UN
Sep 22, 2025
energynews
A UN report reveals that nearly 90% of road projects financed by oil never materialised, fuelling surging poverty amid extreme inflation and poor management.
India: From Conflict to Reconciliation: UN Calls to See Climate Harmony as Security, Stability
Sep 21, 2025
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Anoushka Caroline Williams
Newsmeter
It is also about whether crops survive erratic monsoons, whether the Yamuna and Musi rivers can still sustain life and whether urban air remains breathable…
Liberia: Carbon Markets: Liberia’s Next Frontier for Sustainable Growth
Sep 19, 2025
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Winnie Oguerilam
FrontPage Africa
As the world accelerates efforts to address climate change, carbon markets have become a central mechanism linking environmental stewardship with economic opportunity. For Liberia, a…
Colombia: Colombia Hands over 18,000 Hectares of Land to Rural Families
Sep 19, 2025
Prensa Latina
The transfer of 18,000 hectares of land belonging to drug traffickers and front men to rural families and victims in six departments marks a step…
Ghana: In Coastal Ghana, Female Oyster Farmers Try to Save an Old Practice Threatened by Climate Change
Sep 18, 2025
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Naa Adorkor Cudjoe and Ope Adetayo
AP News
Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a…