International
Sierra Leone: H1 Diamond Exports Drop after Peak in April
Aug 21, 2015
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Awoko
Diamond exports for the first half (H1) of 2015 have dropped from a high of 64.5 thousand carats in April to 35.6 thousand carats in…
Zimbabwe: Housing Co-operative Sues Chikwinya for Land ‘Grabbing’
Aug 20, 2015
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Xolisani Ncube, NewsDay
Woman Affairs minister Nyasha Chikwinya has been taken to court for allegedly falsifying documents to claim ownership of land occupied by a housing co-operative in…
Food Security: Peace is Good for Food Security - Sasu
Aug 19, 2015
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Samuel Hinneh, GhanaWeb
Born into a farming family where Lydia Sasu, a farmer and the executive director of Development Action Association (DAA) witnessed her mother struggle to make…
DRC: SEC’s Disclosure Requirement on Conflict Minerals Again Ruled Unconstitutional — What Now?
Aug 19, 2015
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Jessica S. Lochmann, Frank S. Murray, and Mark T. Plichta, National Law Review
In a long-awaited decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) reaffirmed its prior decision,…
Cambodia: Cambodian Government Takes Umbrage at US Congressman’s Comments on Land Grabs
Aug 18, 2015
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Radio Free Asia
Cambodia’s Ministry of Land Management is acting in accordance with the country’s laws and making an effort to respect citizens’ rights, a ministry official said…
DRC: D.C. Court Unleashes Conflict by Throwing out Conflict-Minerals Rule
Aug 18, 2015
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Daniel Fisher, Forbes
A federal appeals court in Washington threw out a regulation under the Dodd-Frank Act requiring public companies to state whether they use “conflict minerals” in…
Iraq: Iraq's Economy in Trouble
Aug 18, 2015
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Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press
As of July, Iraq's oil revenues stood at $31.5 billion, according to Oil Ministry figures, with an average daily export capacity less than a 3.3…
Iraq/Kurdistan/Turkey: Iraqi Kurdistan Says Oil Pipeline Sabotage Cost It $501 mln
Aug 18, 2015
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Reuters
Repeated sabotage by "organised gangs" of the oil pipeline from northern Iraq to Turkey has cost the autonomous Kurdistan region $501 million since July 1,…
Sudan: Volume of Sudanese Exports of Gum Arabic Reached 34.000 Tons
Aug 18, 2015
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Shadia Basheri, Sudan Vision
Gum Arabic is one of the important commodities that comes on the top of the Sudanese exports, especially after the outage of oil revenues because…
Liberia: Can New Minister Break Liberia’s Agriculture Curse?
Aug 17, 2015
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Rodney D. Sieh, FrontPageAfrica
In tipping the low-key, Dr. Moses Zinnah, head of the Agriculture Sector Rehabilitation Project, as only her third Minister of Agriculture, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Turkey Plays 'Key Role' in Iraqi Kurdish Oil
Aug 15, 2015
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Anadolu Agency
Turkey played a key role in transferring Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) oil to the international market, Turkey's energy minister said on Saturday. Speaking to reporters…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Serious Water Wars Gathering Soot in Foreign Ministry
Aug 15, 2015
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Zeeshan Javaid, Pakistan Observer
Lack of communication between foreign office and ministry for water and power seemed to have put Pakistan and Afghanistan into uncertainty over the trans-border water…
Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan/Uzbekistan: World View: With Rise of ISIS, Violence Flares in Central Asia’s Fergana Valley
Aug 15, 2015
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John J. Xenakis, Breitbart
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have sent troops and officials to a Fergana Valley (or Ferghana Valley) border regions where there are violence is increasing in…
Mining: How Developing Countries Are Paying a High Price for the Global Mineral Boom
Aug 15, 2015
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John Vidal, Guardian
The high price of gold in recent years has also attracted thousands of small-scale miners into fragile ecosystems. Yanomami Indians in northern Brazil and Venezuela…
Myanmar: Myanmar Farmers Need Help Replanting Rice after Floods: U.N.
Aug 15, 2015
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Timothy Mclaughlin, Reuters
Farmers in flood-hit Myanmar face a scramble to replant damaged paddy fields in the next two weeks to avoid food shortages, and aid efforts in…
Sierra Leone: NSAs Demand 25 Years Land Lease to Multinational Investments
Aug 14, 2015
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Awoko
As way to control land use and land lease to multinational foreign companies and ensuring women’s rights to own land, a group of Non-State Actors…
Iraq/Kuwait: Burning Kuwaiti Oil Wells Still Drain Iraqi Budget
Aug 13, 2015
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Ismaeel Naar, Al Arabiya News
Under a cash-strapped budget, Iraq today has to allocate its funds to a number of other obligations, including the fight against ISIS, contractual payments to…
Iraq: Iraq’s Oil Output Climbs to Record as South Escapes Fighting
Aug 12, 2015
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Nayla Razzouk, Bloomberg
Iraq’s crude production climbed to an all-time high in July with record exports from southern terminals mostly unscathed by Islamic State militants. Output in OPEC’s…
Liberia: 2 Wounded in Land Dispute
Aug 12, 2015
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Abednego Davis, Liberian Observer
A land dispute between Milton Bukeh, administrator of the intestate estate of the late Gbarbour, Kpawee, Flee, Napal and Ballah and his siblings left one…
Guinea: Using UAVs to Map Diamond Mines and Reduce Conflict in Africa
Aug 11, 2015
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Patrick Meier, iRevolutions
In June 2014, a joint USAID and USGS team used a small UAV to map artisanal diamond mining sites in Western Guinea. The purpose of this…
India: Special Court Set Up to Try Land-Grabbing Cases
Aug 11, 2015
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The Hindu
The State government, on Monday, issued a notification to establish a special court in Bengaluru for speedy inquiry and trial of land-grabbing cases. The court…
Liberia: Will Palm Oil Help Liberia? Industry Expansion Has Critics Crying Foul
Aug 11, 2015
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Sara Jerving, Mongabay
Many rural Liberians have had their lives upended as the country becomes a new frontier for the mass production of palm oil – an edible…
Liberia: Nimba Citizens Laud LEITI’s Extractive Education
Aug 11, 2015
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Cholo Brooks, Global News Network
Citizens of Nimba County have lauded the Liberia Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (LEITI),for its nationwide dissemination exercise of its 5th report on the extractive sector…
South China Sea: South China Sea Tensions Deter Oil Exploration
Aug 11, 2015
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Sue Lannin, ABC News
An energy analyst said exploring for oil and gas near disputed islands in the South China Sea is too much of a gamble for international…
Water Wars: Filming Water Wars
Aug 11, 2015
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Gautaman Bhaskaran, Gulf Times
Set sometime in the future, Paani would dramatize how water shortage would affect relationships between individuals, cities and nations. The beautiful young daughter of the…
Liberia: Equatorial Palm Oil Reaches Deal to Allow Exports from Liberia
Aug 10, 2015
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London South East
Equatorial Palm Oil PLC Monday said it has signed an agreement with the National Port Authority of Liberia to lease land so it can build…
South Sudan/Sudan: South Sudan Seeks to Revise Oil Deal with Sudan after Global Prices Drop
Aug 10, 2015
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Xinhua
Due to the deteriorating economic conditions caused by the civil war and lack of political stability, South Sudan is seeking to revise the oil deal…
Sudan: People in South Kordofan Reject Traditional Gold Mining
Aug 9, 2015
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Radio Dabanga
The Abu Jubaiha Citizens' Committee in eastern South Kordofan has called on all people living in the locality to oppose the establishment of gold mining…
South Sudan: Nilepet Suspends 'Assistance' Payments after Corruption Report
Aug 8, 2015
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Radio Tamazuj
South Sudan's state-run oil company Nilepet has suspended so-called “assistance” payments after the publication of a report revealing that Managing Director Joseph Cleto Deng was…
South Sudan/Sudan: Sudanese Petroleum Minister Discusses Oil Cooperation in Juba
Aug 7, 2015
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Sudan Tribune
The Sudanese Oil and Gas minister Mohammed Zayed Awad has downplayed the adverse impact on oil fields from the ongoing conflict in South Sudan. Awad…