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United States: Why Indigenous Women are Risking Arrest to Fight Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline through Minnesota

May 10, 2021 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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…

Afghanistan: At Least 19 Killed after Flash Floods in Western Afghanistan

May 5, 2021 | Anadolu Agency

At least 19 people were killed in flash floods caused by heavy downpour in Afghanistan's western Herat province, the country's officials said Tuesday. Heavy rains…

Iraq: Circular Solution to Mosul’s Conflict Debris Launched

May 4, 2021 | UN Environment Programme

Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city – suffered massive devastation during the conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). An estimated…

Myanmar: Political Instability Puts Myanmar’s Biggest Mangrove Forest at Risk

May 4, 2021 | Burma News International

Wun Paik mangrove forest, the biggest of its kind in Myanmar, has seen increased logging since the military coup in February, according to Ramree Township…

Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Agree New Ceasefire after Border Clashes

May 1, 2021 | Al Jazeera

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have agreed what they called a complete ceasefire after reports of fresh shooting and troop build-ups in the aftermath of border clashes…

China/India/Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Press Review: What Sparked the Tajik-Kyrgyz Conflict and China Beating India in S. Asia

Apr 30, 2021 | TASS

A conflict over a disputed water distribution facility on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, which broke out on the morning of April 29, quickly…

Afghanistan: La Niña Looms Large over One-Third of Afghan Population Acutely Food Insecure Today

Apr 30, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

One in three Afghans are acutely food insecure, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released by the Government of the…

Climate Change: Climate Crisis: Our Children Face Wars over Food and Water, EU Deputy Warns

Apr 30, 2021 | Fiona Harvey, Guardian

Older people will have to make sacrifices in the fight against climate change or today’s children will face a future of fighting wars for water…

Vietnam: Gender Equality Integration Crucial to Climate Policies in Vietnam

Apr 29, 2021 | Vietnam Plus

Adding the gender issue to climate change policies is crucial to promoting gender equality in Vietnam, according to Deputy Director of the Institute of Strategy…

Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Four Die as Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan Armies Clash on Disputed Border

Apr 29, 2021 | Associated Press

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan traded blame on Thursday for cross-border shelling and clashes that left at least four people dead and dozens injured in a conflict…

Iraq: ‘There’s No Rain’: Climate Change Threatens Iraq’s Bedouins

Apr 28, 2021 | Simona Foltyn, Al Jazeera

During a two-day trip across Muthanna’s deserts, nomadic herders painted a grim picture of an increasingly uninhabitable environment, where temperature increases and erratic rains have…

Afghanistan: How Afghanistan’s President Helped His Brother Secure Lucrative Mining Deals with a US Contractor

Apr 28, 2021 | Margaux Benn and Zack Kopplin, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

With the stroke of a pen, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani put his sibling into the chromite business with a tarnished U.S. defense contractor.

UAE: UAE Launches Drive to Empower Female Afghan Farmers

Apr 28, 2021 | National

The UAE is launching an innovative drive to help empower Afghan female farmers. It will facilitate the sale of organic produce grown by the women,…

Kuwait: UN Gulf War Reparations Body Pays out $380 mln

Apr 27, 2021 | Reuters

The United Nations Gulf War reparations body said on Tuesday it paid out a further $380 million for losses due to Iraq's 1990 invasion and…

Afghanistan: Gypsum in Baghlan Illegally Extracted Since Last 7 Years

Apr 27, 2021 | Daily Outlook Afghanistan

Gypsum from Sheikh Jalal Mine in Baghlan-i-Markzai district of northern Baghlan province is illegally extracted by local irresponsible armed men and gypsum processing factories since…

Iran/Syria: Iran-Syria Oil Line: An Impending Environmental Disaster in the Mediterranean?

Apr 27, 2021 | Lyse Mauvais, Syria Direct

A fire spotted aboard a loaded oil tanker stationed off the Syrian coast sparked fears of environmental disaster last Saturday, weeks after a large oil…

Colombia: Colombia Land Restitution: Uphill Battle for Returning Families [Video]

Apr 27, 2021 | Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera visits a remote area in Colombia, where the government is failing to meet promises to return families caught up in the conflict to…

Algeria/France: France-Algeria Relations: The Lingering Fallout from Nuclear Tests in the Sahara

Apr 27, 2021 | Maher Mezahi, BBC

The continued fallout from the nuclear tests carried out by France in the desert of its former colony, Algeria, continues to pollute relations between the…

DRC: NBA Hall of Famer and Global Philanthropist, Dikembe Mutombo and Partners, to Invest US$1 Billion in Ethical Mining Projects in Democratic Republic of the Congo to Support Electric Vehicles and Other Technologies

Apr 27, 2021 | PR Newswire

Dikembe Mutombo, Chairman of Bluetech Investments, and international groups of investors from the United States, Hong Kong, and Germany, have announced over a US$1 Billion…