International
Figure of the Week: Closing the Gender Gap to Reduce Food Insecurity in Africa
May 26, 2021
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Tamara White, Brookings Institute
In April of this year, the Oxford Business group released its “Agriculture in Africa 2021: Focus Report”. This report outlines the region’s export potential and…
Drought Fueling Western Wildfires, Water Wars, Legal Conflicts
May 25, 2021
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Bobby Magill, Bloomberg Law
The historic dry conditions desiccating the West will pit “tribe against tribe” and “fish against fish” as they compete for the last available drops of…
Sudan: Military Gender Advocate of the Year Highlights ‘Crucial Gender Dimensions’ in Darfur
May 24, 2021
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UN News
Secretary-General António Guterres lauded 32-year-old Military Gender Advisor Steplyne Nyaboga who served in the recently completed UN-African Hybrid Union Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), for the…
Afghanistan: Afghan Villagers Pour out Life’s Savings to Build Reservoirs
May 20, 2021
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Sayed Salahuddin, Arab News
First, the water wells and natural springs went dry. Then, the karez and qanats (ancient underground irrigation tunnels) ran out of water, too, forcing thousands…
Colombia: In Colombia, a Successful Jaguar Conservation Program Has a Whiff of Coffee
May 20, 2021
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Antonio José Paz Cardona, Mongabay
Fires had a devastating effect in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in Colombia’s Caribbean region, between 2012 and 2013. At almost the same time,…
Conflict Minerals: Glencore, Umicore to Trace Battery Cobalt with Blockchain Technology
May 20, 2021
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Reuters
Mining and trading company Glencore and other miners are joining forces with battery material supplier Umicore to make the cobalt used in electric cars traceable…
Myanmar: Kachin Farmers Occupy Land Seized by Myanmar Military-Linked Company
May 20, 2021
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Irrawaddy
Kachin State farmers are recapturing their land, confiscated under the previous military regime by the Yuzana Company in 2006, after the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)…
Colombia: Is Colombia’s Military Displacing Peasants to Protect the Environment or Sell Off Natural Resources?
May 19, 2021
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Justin Podur, Globetrotter
Colombia witnessed a series of mass protests at the end of April following a call for a national strike in the city of Cali. Still…
Colombia: Settlers Invading, Deforesting Colombian National Parks ‘at an Unstoppable Speed’
May 19, 2021
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Antonio José Paz Cardona, Mongabay
For the past several years, Colombia’s Tinigua National Natural Park has been racked by one of the highest levels of deforestation of any such protected…
Syria: Jumah Haider: Reducing Water Resources of Euphrates Is Kind of Special War
May 19, 2021
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Hawar News Agency
The Euphrates River, which passes through large areas of Syrian lands, is the artery on which the Syrian citizen depends on income. The low level…
Liberia: Environmental Protection Agency to Hold National Conference on Climate Change
May 19, 2021
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FrontPage Africa, Lennart Dodoo
Liberia is poised to host a national conference on the environment and climate change with the aim and adopting and signing of the Monrovia Declaration…
Philippines/South China Sea: Duterte Bans Philippines Cabinet from Speaking on South China Sea
May 18, 2021
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Al Jazeera
Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, has barred his cabinet from publicly discussing the South China Sea dispute after key ministers rebuked Beijing over…
China/Philippines/South China Sea: Philippines Ignores China Fishing Ban in Disputed Waters
May 14, 2021
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Ralph Jennings, Voice of America
The Philippine government took another step this month in opposing China by telling its vast fishing fleet to ignore Beijing’s annual fishing ban in the…
Chile: Chile Indigenous: Time to Make Our Voices Heard
May 14, 2021
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BBC
Replacing it had been one of the demands made in nationwide protests which swept through the country in 2019. This weekend, Chileans are being asked to…
Kenya: Women and Youth Are Leading Kenya’s Coral Reef Revival
May 14, 2021
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Sophie Mbugua, Climate Home News
Five years ago, 20-year-old Said Abdallah was struggling with alcohol and drug addiction while living on Wasini Island, located in the Indian Ocean, 3 kilometres…
Kurdistan: Kurdistan Amends Repayment Terms to IOCs, Citing Higher Oil Prices, Pandemic Stress
May 13, 2021
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Herman Wang, S&P Global Platts
The Kurdistan Regional Government plans to slash payments owed for previous shortfalls to international oil producers operating in the semi-autonomous region of Iraq, citing the…
Vietnam: Agent Orange Case: After Defeat, Woman, 79, Vows to Keep Up Fight
May 12, 2021
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Alexander Durie, Al Jazeera
The landmark trial between a 79-year-old Vietnamese-French woman and 14 chemical multinationals was always going to be a David and Goliath legal battle. Trần Tố Nga…
Lebanon/Syria: Syrian Landmines Wash into Lebanon Due to Floods
May 12, 2021
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Najia Houssari, Arab News
As authorities continue to find and extract landmines left behind from the Lebanese Civil War, a new wave of explosives has entered the country’s border…
Indonesia: Feature-Eco-friendly Eid - the Indonesian Women on a Mission to Plant Trees
May 12, 2021
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Harry Jacques, Reuters
On a grass verge by a road dissecting miles of rice fields in Central Java province, a group of volunteers with ‘Aisyiyah, Indonesia’s oldest Islamic…
Myanmar: Gender-Based Violence in Myanmar and the Military Coup
May 12, 2021
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Matthew Brown, Borgen Magazine
Myanmar has long struggled as a multicultural society governed primarily through the ethnic Burmese-led military known as the Tatmadaw. The conflict exists since gaining independence…
Myanmar: Myanmar’s Anti-Coup Protesters Defy Rigid Gender Roles – and Subvert Stereotypes about Women to Their Advantage
May 12, 2021
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Ei Hlaing, The Conversation
One of the first signs of the military coup that overthrew Myanmar’s democratically elected civilian government was a Facebook Live video of regional lawmaker Pa Pa Han being arrested,…
DRC: DR Congo to Suffer $4bn Shortfall from Gertler Contracts: Activists
May 12, 2021
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Agence France-Presse
The Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to suffer a shortfall of nearly four billion dollars from mining and oil contracts that it signed…
United States: Why Indigenous Women are Risking Arrest to Fight Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline through Minnesota
May 10, 2021
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Hilary Beaumont, Environment Health News
After a six-year-long permitting process, Enbridge contractors in Minnesota are building Line 3, the largest project in the company's history. If completed, it will carry…
Afghanistan: Women, Girls, and Afghanistan’s Missing Justice
May 10, 2021
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The New Humanitarian
Rights groups say girls were the clear target of the 8 May violence, when a series of explosions erupted as many students were leaving class.…
Liberia: Pres. Weah to Constitute Committee to Probe Nimba Land Dispute
May 10, 2021
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Global News Network
President George Manneh Weah has disclosed plan to set up a committee that will be charged with the responsibility to thoroughly investigate the land dispute…
Myanmar: Trafficking of Banned Myanmar Teak Lands German Company with $4m Fine
May 10, 2021
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Nicolás Bustamante Hernández, Mongabay
WOB Timber, a logging company based in Hamburg, Germany, has been ordered by a court to pay a $4 million fine for illegally trading Myanmar…
Afghanistan: 75pc of Mining Sites Controlled by Militants and Strongmen
May 10, 2021
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Ahmad Sohaib Hasrat, Pajhwok Afghan News
A table of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) shows that of 748 mining areas in different parts of Afghanistan, about 283 are controlled…
Myanmar: China Alarmed after Strategic Oil Pipeline Station in Myanmar Is Attacked
May 8, 2021
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Atul Aneja, Daiji World
Alarm bells are ringing loud and clear in China after Myanmar protesters have attacked a monitoring station of a strategic pipeline that ferries oil to…
Four Months into Brexit, the UK and France Have Resorted to Gunboat Diplomacy over Fish
May 6, 2021
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Luke McGee, CNN
Take a glance at the British media and you'd be forgiven for thinking that the UK was preparing for war with France. On Wednesday night,…
Philippines: Tausug Women in Conflict Areas Find Solution to Food Security
May 5, 2021
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Liza Abubakar-Jocson, Manila Bulletin
A simple gardening program in Sulu is bringing soldiers and residents together to address the root of poverty and conflict in island communities. Tausug women…