International


Colombia: Colombia Launches Mining Lending Scheme

Jan 15, 2021 | Bnamericas

Colombia’s energy and mining ministry and agriculture financing fund Finagro are implementing a four-year loan scheme for small and medium miners.


Dismantling Barriers to Women’s Participation in Peace Processes, WPHF Launches New Rapid Financing Tool

Jan 14, 2021 | Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund

(New York) – The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) – together with UN, government and civil society partners – launched on Thursday a new financing mechanism to…


DRC: Why Rangers in the Congo’s Virunga National Park Are under Attack

Jan 14, 2021 | Conversation

Armed men have killed at least six rangers and wounded several others in an ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Virunga national park.…


China/South China Sea: US Slaps Sanctions on China Oil Giant over South China Sea Activity

Jan 14, 2021 | Matthew Pennington, Radio Free Asia

The United States on Thursday blacklisted Chinese oil giant CNOOC and slapped visa restrictions on officials of the Chinese navy, ruling party and state-owned enterprises…


Colombia: Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community’s Quest for Peace

Jan 14, 2021 | Agostino Petroni, YES! Magazine

Two decades after its declaration of neutrality, the Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó community still carries on its peace crusade. Despite many…


Myanmar: Agriculture Ministry Wants More Dams amid Water Shortage

Jan 14, 2021 | Htoo Thant, Myanmar Times

The country’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, is considering building more dams to address the increasing water scarcity in the country due to less…


Myanmar: Myanmar to Launch Digital Land Database

Jan 14, 2021 | Aung Loon, Myanmar Times

Myanmar will launch an online land database soon, said Minister of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations U Thaung Tun. The online land database will be…


South Sudan: South Sudan Resumes Environmental Audit in Oil-Field Areas

Jan 14, 2021 | Xinhua

South Sudan on Thursday resumed its plan to boost environmental audit in oil-producing regions following public uproar over poor waste management. Puot Kang Chol, Petroleum…


Dismantling Barriers to Women’s Participation in Peace Processes

Jan 14, 2021 | Women' Peace and Humanitarian Fund

The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) – together with UN, government and civil society partners – launched on Thursday a new financing mechanism to urgently accelerate…


Afghanistan: Mitigating the Potential Impacts of Dry Conditions Triggered by La Niña in Afghanistan

Jan 13, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

During the second half of 2020, a moderate to strong La Niña phenomenon was registered that is causing extreme weather conditions in various parts of…


Ghana: ACEP Launches Report on Gender Budgeting of Mineral Revenue in Ghana

Jan 13, 2021 | Business Ghana

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has launched a research report that exposes critical gender gaps in allocation of resources, utilization and benefits in…


Fisheries Need to Make Gender Inclusion a Norm, Not just ‘Reach’ Women, Says Pacific Study

Jan 12, 2021 | Carinya Sharples, Mongabay

A study into gender-inclusion approaches on Fiji, Vanatu and Solomon Islands finds most focus on women while overlooking the role of men and gender relations.…


Middle East: Facebook and Google Earth Help Probe Eco-Crimes in the Middle East

Jan 12, 2021 | Cathrin Schaer, Deutsche Welle

Researchers are using the same open-source data methods that helped track war crimes in Syria to document environmental offenses in places like Yemen and Iraq.


Liberia/Sierra Leone: Saving the Gola Forest: Reimagining Forest Conservation in West Africa

Jan 12, 2021 | Lewis Kihumba, Bird Life International

Covering more than 350,000 hectares, straddling the Liberia and Sierra Leone borders, Gola Forest is the largest remaining block of Upper Guinean Forest. Years of…


UN Women and UNV Launch New Young Women Leaders Initiative

Jan 12, 2021 | UN Women

UN Women, in partnership with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, is excited to introduce the UN Women “Young Women Leaders” (YWL) initiative. The YWL…


United Kingdom, South Africa: UK to Support South African Women Entrepreneurs to Develop GreenTech Businesses

Jan 11, 2021 | Rebecca Campbell, Engineering News

The UK, through the UK-South Africa Tech Hub, and in partnership with the Future Females Business School, will help 30 South African women entrepreneurs to…


Uganda: Mubende Youth, Women Embrace Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies

Jan 11, 2021 | Dan Wandera, Daily Monitor

Ms Hilda Atwongyeirwe, an IT graduate who is now deeply committed to her 35 acre soybean plantation at Kahumuro village Kitenga Subcounty  in Mubende District…


Nigeria: Nigeria Cattle Crisis: How Drought and Urbanisation Led to Deadly Land Grabs

Jan 11, 2021 | Orji Sunday, Guardian

For many years the clashes between farmers and cattle herders were problematic, but the two groups usually managed to reach a mutual accommodation. But in…


Rwanda: Rwanda Dismisses UN Experts Allegations in DRC Midterm Report

Jan 9, 2021 | Emmanuel Ntirenganya, New Times

The Government of Rwanda on Friday, January 8, dismissed allegations from the UN Group of Experts (GoE) Midterm report which claimed that there were Rwandan troops…


Liberia: Popota Town Land Dispute Deepens as Two Groups Claim Ownership

Jan 7, 2021 | Christopher C. Walker, FrontPage Africa

Several residents of Popota Town in Fuamah District Bong County have expressed fear of losing their land to  Betty Cooper Kabah who they say is…


Colombia: Cocaine Production Driving Deforestation into Colombian National Park

Jan 7, 2021 | René Mora, Mongabay

The location of the Catatumbo region sits on the border with Venezuela, making it a strategic route for armed groups such as the National Liberation…


Liberia: Miners, Loggers Clash over Gbarpolu Forest

Jan 7, 2021 | Moses R. Quollin, FrontPage Africa

On March 4 2019, Korninga B, an authorized forest community, signed a logging contract with Singaporean-Indian logging company Indo Africa Plantation Liberia Incorporated. However, one…


Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Tigray Conflict Could Delay Grand Renaissance Dam Negotiations

Jan 7, 2021 | ESI Africa

Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia have resumed talks in an attempt to resolve conflict surrounding Africa’s largest and most controversial hydroelectric project, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance…


Climate Change: Climate-Change-Induced Conflict? Rare Footage Captured of Jaguar Killing Ocelot at Waterhole

Jan 6, 2021 | Washington State University

In what may be a sign of climate-change-induced conflict, researchers have captured rare photographic evidence of a jaguar killing another predatory wild cat at an…


Afghanistan: Climate Change Threatens Glaciers in Afghanistan: Experts

Jan 6, 2021 | Khaled Nikzad, TOLOnews

There are nearly 4,000 glaciers lying up high in various regions of Afghanistan, but the climate change is severely threatening these highly important sources of…


Where Are the Women in Food Insecurity Analysis?

Jan 4, 2021 | Amy Lieberman, Devex

NEW YORK — Women are more likely to experience food insecurity than men, and the pandemic has exacerbated this divide. Women continue to shoulder more…


Myanmar: Myanmar Mulls Online Gems and Jewellery Sales

Jan 4, 2021 | Pa Pa, Myanmar Times

After almost a year without income due to the inability to hold physical emporiums and promotional events in 2020, the Myanmar gems and jewellery industry…


South Sudan: 'Our Children Die in Our Hands': Floods Ravage South Sudan

Jan 4, 2021 | E&E News

On a scrap of land surrounded by flooding in South Sudan, families drink and bathe from the waters that swept away latrines and continue to…


Liberia: Stakeholders Hold Boundary Harmonization Meeting in Grand Gedeh

Jan 3, 2021 | Global News Network

Grand Geedeh Bar Association in collaboration with the Grand Geedeh County Legislative Caucus has ended a two-day Community leaders meeting with stakeholders of bordering communities…


Myanmar: Myanmar Migratory Bird Census to Be Taken by Locals

Jan 3, 2021 | Phyo Wai Kyaw, Myanmar Times

The Asian migratory bird census which is usually conducted yearly will be taken in collaboration with local communities in Myanmar this year, said Daw Thiri…