International
Climate Change: How Climate Change Helped Strengthen the Taliban
Aug 20, 2021
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Cara Korte, CBS News
Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change. The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry.…
Climate Change: An Unstable World – What the IPCC Report Means for the Security Community
Aug 19, 2021
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Lindsey Wilkinson, Homeland Security Today
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) first section of its Sixth Assessment Report, ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science’ was recently released and while…
Afghanistan: Taliban's Return Clouds Plans for Afghan Resource Projects
Aug 19, 2021
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Tom Daly, Reuters
China could look to steal a march on wary western nations in developing resource projects in a Taliban-led Afghanistan, state media and industry sources say,…
Afghanistan: Afghan Women Are Already Fading From Public View as Fear of the Taliban and Uncertainty Prevail
Aug 19, 2021
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Margherita Stancati and Jessica Donati
Dr. Zuhal used to drive herself to work.
This week, she started taking a taxi to avoid reprisals from the Taliban, who once banned women from…
Myanmar: Myanmar Junta’s Coup Gives Greenlight to Timber Traffickers
Aug 17, 2021
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Irrawaddy
Timber logging usually takes a break in the monsoon. Even smugglers halt their activities from mid-May to early October to avoid the rainy season. However,…
Nigeria: New Rice Scheme to Engage 1000 Women, Youths
Aug 17, 2021
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Gilbert Ekugbe
Over 1000 women and youths are expected to benefit from a new rice initiative (wet season) aimed at boosting rice production in the country post…
Water Wars: How Water Shortages Are Brewing Wars
Aug 16, 2021
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Sandy Milne, BBC
Unprecedented levels of dam building and water extraction by nations on great rivers are leaving countries further downstream increasingly thirsty, increasing the risk of conflicts.
Water Wars: How Water Shortages Are Brewing Wars
Aug 16, 2021
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Sandy Milne, BBC
Unprecedented levels of dam building and water extraction by nations on great rivers are leaving countries further downstream increasingly thirsty, increasing the risk of conflicts.
Liberia: NaFAA Distributes Free Fishing Nets to Fishermen in Grand Bassa
Aug 16, 2021
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Lennart Dodoo, FrontPage Africa
The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) has fulfilled its pledge to Fishermen as over 300 received several thread nets in exchange for their rubber…
Liberia: Golden Veroleum Reacts to Rights Groups' Reports Condemning It of Illtreating Liberians
Aug 16, 2021
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FrontPage Africa
Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc. (GVL) acknowledges the report released by SDI and Milieudefensie which indicated that "GVL structurally fails to comply with obligations and commitments…
Afghanistan: The Taliban Now Controls One of the World’s Biggest Lithium Deposits
Aug 16, 2021
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Tim McDonnell, Quartz
When Taliban fighters entered Kabul on Aug. 15, they didn’t just seize control of the Afghan government. They also gained the ability to control access…
Iraq: Daesh Militants Attack Oilfield in Iraq's Kirkuk
Aug 15, 2021
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Middle East Monitor
Suspected Daesh militants used an explosive device to attack an oilfield in Iraq's northern Kirkuk province on Sunday, according to a local police officer, reports…
China/Iraq: Projects: China's CNOOC to Drill 150 Oil Wells in Iraq
Aug 15, 2021
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ZAWYA
Iraq has inked an initial agreement with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to drill 150 wells in Buzurgan oilfield in the Southeastern Maysan Governorate, the…
Afghanistan: Profits and Poppy: Afghanistan's Illegal Drug Trade a Boon for Taliban
Aug 15, 2021
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Jonathan Landay, Reuters
The United States spent more than $8 billion over 15 years on efforts to deprive the Taliban of their profits from Afghanistan's opium and heroin…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Attack on Power Grid Shuts Down Major Water Pumping Station in Iraqi Capital
Aug 14, 2021
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Kurdistan 24
Iraqi electricity towers were taken offline on Saturday after an attack, shutting down pumping stations delivering water to the western part of Baghdad, a government…
Afghanistan: Will Afghanistan’s Centuries-Old ‘Karez’ System of Irrigation Survive the Taliban
Aug 13, 2021
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Rajat Ghai, DownToEarth
The resurgent Taliban is on the victory march to Kabul. It has already taken provincial capitals as well as Afghanistan’s third-largest city of Herat. As…
Israel/Palestine: UK Palestinian Justice Centre Defends Gallery Exhibit on Israel-Palestine Conflict
Aug 13, 2021
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Middle East Eye
A Palestinian legal centre in the UK has defended an art gallery in Manchester for displaying an exhibition highlighting the environmental effects of Israeli military…
Afghanistan: Taliban Earned $1.6 Billion In 2020: Here's How the Terrorist Group Makes Money
Aug 12, 2021
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Renz Soliman, International Business Times
The Taliban, one of the most notorious terrorist groups worldwide, has grown its financial assets through the years. The militant group earned $1.6 billion in 2020, which significantly…
Climate Change: Climate Change Is Already Disrupting the Military. It Will Get Worse, Officials Say
Aug 10, 2021
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Patrick Tucker, Defense One
The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive, multi-year effort to better adapt to climate change and reduce greenhouse emissions. But the changing climate…
Ethiopia: Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project and Political Conflict
Aug 10, 2021
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Borgen Magazine
In 2011, Ethiopia started construction on a dam along the Blue Nile River that the government coined the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project, GERD. Projections…
South Africa: Women Miners in South Africa Break Barriers with Mentors' Help
Aug 9, 2021
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Linda Givetash and Zaheer Cassim
The mining industry has long been one of South Africa’s largest sectors, but women are still a minority in its workforce. Now, a group called…
Liberia: Victims of Liberian Gold Mine Disaster See Groundbreaking Complaint against Development Banks Accepted
Aug 9, 2021
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Global News Network
In a precedent-setting case, more than 10,000 people harmed by the New Liberty Gold Mine in Liberia have had a complaint accepted against the German…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq, Kurdistan Region Look to Resolve Long-Standing Oil Dispute
Aug 9, 2021
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Charles Kennedy, Oilprice.com
The federal government of Iraq and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan pledged on Sunday to cooperate in resolving their differences in energy issues, hoping to…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s $1000 Billion Worth of Natural Assets in Taliban’s Custody
Aug 6, 2021
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Najibullah Lalzoy, Khaama Press
Afghanistan is rich geography when it comes to mines and natural resources. Some of these mines are ready to be excavated while others are being…
Afghanistan: Drought Compounds Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan as Conflict Intensifies
Aug 6, 2021
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Kanupriya Kapoor, Reuters
Millions of Afghans are struggling to put food on the table as prolonged drought disrupts supplies in a country reeling from a surge in violence…
Afghanistan: Afghan Troops Foil Another Attack on India-Built Salma Dam
Aug 5, 2021
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Rezaul H Laskar, Hindustan Times
Afghan security forces have thwarted a Taliban attack on the India-built Salma Dam in Afghanistan’s Herat province, the third such assault since last month on…
Liberia: Port Authority Head in Dispute with River Cess Community over Customary Land
Aug 5, 2021
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Eric Doue, Bush Chicken
For months, residents in this area of Gbarsaw Clan have watched with increasing alarm as hundreds of men with heavy machinery have cut down trees…
DRC/Rwanda: How ‘Blood Mineral’ Traders in Rwanda Are Helping Fund Congo Rebels – and Undermining Global Supply Chains
Aug 4, 2021
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Geoffrey York and Judi Rever, Globe and Mail
New evidence from a United Nations report and a high-profile The investor arbitration case is shedding a spotlight on Rwanda’s role in the sophisticated smuggling…
Food Security: A Widespread Famine Accelerated by Floods, Droughts — and Guns
Aug 3, 2021
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Thalif Deen, InDepthNews
A recent joint press release by the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization had an arresting headline: Famine Relief Blocked by Bullets,…
Myanmar: ‘Weapons, Power and Money’: How Rare Earth Mining in Kachin Enriches a Tatmadaw Ally
Aug 3, 2021
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Juaman Naw, Emily Fishbein, and Ronja Pilgaard, Frontier Myanmar
The leader of a Tatmadaw-controlled Border Guard Force in a remote region of Kachin State has emerged as a key player in the global rare…