International
Sudan: Sudanese Gold Output to Reach Record 80 Tonnes This Year
Oct 6, 2015
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Dania Saadi, The National
Gold production in Sudan is forecast to rise 9.6 per cent to a record 80 tonnes this year as the African country seeks to boost…
Cambodia: Anti-Logging Vigilantes Get International Recognition
Oct 6, 2015
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Aun Chhengpor, Voice of America
In late September, the Prey Lang Community Network was selected as one of the world’s top 21 local community groups working for environmental conservation in the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurds Boost Oil Sales in Drive for Financial Independence
Oct 5, 2015
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Mais Al-Amouri, Bloomberg
Iraq’s Kurdish region ramped up crude exports by 27 percent in September as the semi-autonomous enclave seeks greater financial independence amid a budget dispute with…
Conflict Minerals: SEC Seeks Rehearing in Conflict Minerals Case
Oct 5, 2015
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National Law Review
October 2, 2015 marked another step in the continuing legal challenge of the conflict minerals rule. The SEC and Amnesty International filed petitions requesting an…
Liberia: CRC Chair Suggests at FAO, GOL 2 Days Conference
Oct 5, 2015
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Gloria T. Tamba, Liberian Observer
The chairperson of the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott, has reminded members of the National Legislature on the speedy passage of the…
Côte d’Ivoire: Ivory Coast Seeks to Save Forests from Illegal Cocoa Boom
Oct 5, 2015
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Ange Aboa, Reuters
In Mont Peko National Park, thousands of leafless Iroko and Samba trees tower over a sea of lush plantations like headstones, a testament to the…
Iraq: Cholera Infections in Iraq Climb to More than 800: Health Ministry
Oct 3, 2015
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Press TV
Iraqi medical authorities say the number of recorded cases of cholera in the conflict-ridden Arab country has climbed to more than 800, though no new…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Gulf Petroleum Says Kurdish Oil Reserves at Least Double Expected Amount
Oct 3, 2015
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Hellenic Shipping News
Gulf Keystone Petroleum said third-party estimates show recoverable oil reserves in the Kurdish north of Iraq are at least twice as much as initially expected.…
Central African Republic and Philippines: Slave Labour behind 'Blood Diamonds' Jewelry Dug from African Mines by Children
Oct 1, 2015
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Imogen Calderwood. Daily Mail
The jewellery around your neck and on your fingers is still being dug out of the earth by slave children facing extreme danger, two new…
Myanmar: Land-Grab Communities Hope for Election Saviour
Oct 1, 2015
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Nyan Lynn Aung, Myanmar Times
The ethnic Kayin woman, from Thein Byin village in Tanintharyi township, has walked to the hilltop overlooking the valley to pray together with other residents…
Liberia: GVL Conducts Participatory Mapping with Communities in Grand Kru
Oct 1, 2015
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Liberian Observer
Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) is holding a series of meetings, alongside land mapping with communities that have freely offered new and additional lands for oil…
Peru: Peru Declares State of Emergency in Mining Region
Sep 30, 2015
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BBC
Peru declared a 30-day state of emergency in the Apurimac region on Tuesday after four people were killed during anti-mining protests. The four were shot…
Iraq/Syria/ISIS: U.S. Offers $5 Million for Tips on Disrupting ISIS' Oil, Antiquities Trade
Sep 30, 2015
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Faith Karimi, CNN
The war against ISIS is expanding to a new frontier: its finances. As the terror group plunders archaeological sites and oil fields in Iraq and…
Liberia: Sinoe County - Liberian Community Pushing to Manage Forest
Sep 30, 2015
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Al-Varney Rogers Alvarney, FrontPageAfrica
The Norwegian government has pledged $150m up to the year 2020 if Liberia protects its forests standing - putting communities in charge of conserving their…
Central African Republic: The Blood Diamond Trade is Tearing the Central African Republic Apart
Sep 30, 2015
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Jake Flanagin, Quartz
The Central African Republic (CAR)—one of the poorest countries in the world—has been embroiled in intense religious conflict since Dec. 2012. Fighting between the predominantly…
Myanmar: Mandalay Golf Resort Project Faces Land-Grabbing Claims
Sep 29, 2015
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Kyaw Ko Ko, Myanmar Times
Defiant farmers in Mandalay Region are cultivating fields they say they own as negotiations with the local authorities broke down. The 200 farmers began harrowing…
Côte d’Ivoire: President Ouattara Receives Post-Conflict Environmental Report
Sep 28, 2015
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Cholo Brooks, Global News Network
Ivorian President AlassaneOuattara received Friday a United Nations report detailing decades of environmental destruction in the country, especially during 11 years of civil war and…
Liberia: Land Disputes Threaten Peace & Security
Sep 28, 2015
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The New Republic
The Mayor of Ganta Ben Dokpah has said land disputes in the country remain a serious threat to the peace of security the country of…
Somalia: British Oil Firm Accused of Corruption in Somalia Exploration Deal
Sep 26, 2015
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Cholo Brooks, Global News Network
A British oil exploration firm has been accused of corrupt payments to government officials in Somalia in return for rights to explore offshore for hydrocarbons,…
Liberia: Another Land Dispute in Nimba
Sep 25, 2015
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Solomon T. Gaye, The Inquirer
The Muslim community dominated by the Mandingo ethnic groups has disrupted a team of surveyors backed by the 8th Judiciary Circuit Court Sheriff in the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Theft Disrupts Kurdish Oil Flows to Turkey
Sep 25, 2015
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Daniel J. Graeber, United Press International
The Kurdish government in northern Iraq said the flow of crude oil to a Turkish sea port was halted because of theft at the start…
Liberia: Big Money: Liberia Lost Nearly $300M in Illegal Deposits
Sep 25, 2015
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FrontPageAfrica
In February this year, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists website released information relating to 300 secret bank accounts accused of involvement in tax evasion…
Liberia: Judge Paye Accused of Favoritism in Nimba Land Dispute
Sep 24, 2015
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Arrington Ballah, The Bush Chicken
Circuit Court Judge Emery Paye has been accused of bias in an ongoing land dispute. Julius Sannoh, a member of the Ganta Mandingo Caucus, made…
Timor-Leste: East Timor Starts New Gas Field Arbitration
Sep 24, 2015
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Michael Roddan, Business Spectator
East Timor has started new arbitration proceedings to resolve a dispute with Australia over access to offshore petroleum resources, including the Greater Sunrise fields that Woodside Petroleum hopes to develop. After…
Myanmar: Farmers Confront Minister During Rally
Sep 24, 2015
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Swan Ye Htut, Myanmar Times
Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing came under pressure from constituents yesterday over allegations land had been taken from farmers and placed in…
Myanmar: One Dead, Several Injured as Mine Accident Floods Village
Sep 24, 2015
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Ko Htwe & Yamin Oo, Democratic Voice of Burma
A 12-year-old child was killed and several elderly residents were injured when the embankment of a tailing pond at a mine site collapsed, triggering a…
Myanmar: Election Takes a Back Seat as Flood-Hit Magwe’s Farmers Struggle to Rebuild
Sep 23, 2015
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Nay Aung, Myanmar Times
For the tens of thousands of farmers in Magwe Region still reeling from last month’s floods, the November election may not register as high-priority. With…
Liberia: Ellen Submits “Liberia Land Authority” Bill
Sep 23, 2015
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J. Burgess Carter, Liberian Observer
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf submitted to the Senate for enactment into law an Act to create the Liberia Land Authority. In her letter to that august…
South Sudan: S. Sudan Official: Oil Companies Did 'Nothing' to Protect Environment
Sep 23, 2015
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Radio Tamazuj
A petroleum ministry official has admitted that oil companies before and after independence have done nothing to stop environmental damage caused by oil extraction, while…
Australia: Australian Defence Under-Prepared for Climate Change Security Threat
Sep 22, 2015
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Michael Brissenden, ABC News
A former head of the Australian military has warned that the ADF needs to do more to integrate climate change impact into defence planning. Retired…