International
Climate Change: War Gaming the Climate: How Global Warming Could Trigger Nationalism
Dec 24, 2015
|
Megan Darby, Climate Home
Backed by the UK’s foreign office and Skoll Global Threats Fund, 24 experts met to play out the implications of a heating planet. These included…
Cote d’Ivoire/Liberia/Sierra Leone/Guinea: US$2bn Power Transmission Line for 4 MRU States
Dec 23, 2015
|
Global News Network
A 225kv power transmission line costing over US2 billion is to be constructed linking the four Mano River Union (MRU) states to serve the expanding…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Oil Tears Iraq to Pieces
Dec 23, 2015
|
Rufiz Hafizoglu, Trend
The division of the Arab countries of the Middle East on a mini "state" is a painful process accompanied by military actions. The common religion…
Vietnam/China/South China Sea: Insight - Vietnam Builds Military Muscle to Face China
Dec 18, 2015
|
Greg Torode, Reuters
Vietnam's military is steeling itself for conflict with China as it accelerates a decade-long modernisation drive, Hanoi's biggest arms buildup since the height of the…
Liberia: The Importance of the Land Rights Bill to Liberia’s Land Reform Part II (Land Ownership)
Dec 18, 2015
|
Liberian Observer
The Land Rights Bill is a proposed law currently before the Legislature for review. The Bill seeks to establish authentic procedures and well organized processes…
Iraq: World Bank Lends Iraq $1.2 Billion to Face Oil, Security Shocks
Dec 18, 2015
|
Sylvia Westall, Reuters
The World Bank said on Thursday it would lend Iraq $1.2 billion in emergency support to help it deal with the economic effects of its…
Iraq/Syria/Islamic State: U.N. Targets Islamic State Oil Finance Network
Dec 18, 2015
|
Daniel J. Graeber, United Press International
Finance ministers gathered at the United Nations said that, with millions of dollars coming from illegal oil sales, it was time to target Islamic State…
Vietnam/China/South China Sea: Vietnamese Submarine Patrols South China Sea
Dec 17, 2015
|
Reuters
Vietnam's military is steeling itself for conflict with China as it accelerates a decade-long modernisation drive, Hanoi's biggest arms buildup since the height of the…
DRC: Student Leads Wisconsin School District to Go “Conflict-Free” as International Movement Gathers Steam in 2015
Dec 17, 2015
|
Enough Project
From high schools and college campuses to cities and states, the “Conflict-Free” movement continued to expand this year. Spurred by the activism of a high…
South Sudan: Fuelled by Corruption, South Sudan War Enters Third Year
Dec 17, 2015
|
Karin Zeitvogel, IRIN
South Sudan is an oil-rich country with fertile soil and a wealth of untapped mineral riches. Pilfering money is easy for those who are so…
Food Security: Building Peace: A Path to Resilience in the Face of Food Insecurity
Dec 16, 2015
|
Kate McMahon, Devex
This year’s weather forecast is grim for vulnerable communities and households around the world. Recent reports indicate that this year’s extreme El Nino is having…
Libya/Islamic State: Islamic State Looks to North Africa for Oil, Recruits
Dec 16, 2015
|
Carla Babb, Voice of America
Libya and the Sinai are “vulnerable” areas that the Islamic State group would like to exploit for potential oil revenue and recruits, officials say, as…
Myanmar: UN: Poverty, Conflict Drive Opium Production in Myanmar-Laos
Dec 15, 2015
|
Ron Corben, Voice of America
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime’s latest opium survey for Myanmar and Laos, released Tuesday, said poverty and conflict are the driving forces behind…
Global: Conflict Tops List of Global Risks
Dec 15, 2015
|
Strategic Risk
A UNEP report supports the findings of the World Economic Forum that interstate conflict with regional consequences is now rated as the most likely of…
Ethiopia: Five Dead in Ethiopia Protests Sparked by Land Grab Fears
Dec 15, 2015
|
Agence France-Presse
Ethiopia's government said Tuesday five people had died in weeks of protests sparked by land grab fears in the country's Oromia region, dismissing opposition reports…
Liberia: 6th EITI Report Shows Gains in Extractive Sector
Dec 15, 2015
|
Omari Jackson, Liberian Observer
The Liberian government received more revenues than payments declared by eight reporting companies because of the net difference of U$5,361,233 or 2.9% of the total…
South Sudan: South Sudan, Rocked by Conflict and Economy Reeling from Falling Oil Prices, Devalues Currency by 84%
Dec 15, 2015
|
Okech Francis and Neo Khanyile, Mail & Guardian Africa
South Sudan devalued its currency by 84% as the government abandoned efforts to fix the exchange rate and allowed the pound to trade freely, surrendering to…
South Sudan: New Report Exposes South Sudan’s War Machine, Offers Steps to Target Financial Interests and Counter Potential Spoilers
Dec 15, 2015
|
South Sudan News Agency
Today, on the two-year anniversary of the start of South Sudan’s civil war, a new report by the Enough Project exposes the political and financial…
Climate Security: Climate Change Will Create More Violent Extremism, If We Let It
Dec 15, 2015
|
Jessica Leber, Co.Exist
The protests and violent conflict in Syria that began in 2011 originally took U.S. security analysts by surprise. Early in the Arab Spring, the State…
Liberia: LEITI Report Reveals More Revenue, Less Payment
Dec 15, 2015
|
Willie N. Tokpah, FrontPageAfrica
The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has released its sixth report with major reveling discrepancy of net differences of more revenues than payments declared by…
Iraq: Iraqi State Oil Firm Official Shot Dead in Kirkuk city: Police
Dec 14, 2015
|
Reuters
Gunmen shot dead a senior employee of Iraq's state-run North Oil Company (NOC) on Monday, the third company official to be killed in the past…
Iraq: There is No Respite for Iraq’s Oil Industry
Dec 13, 2015
|
Saadallah Al Fathi, Gulf News
Iraq’s oil revenues are now projected at $50 billion this year compared to about $84 billion in 2014 even though exports increased by about 0.5…
South Sudan: Camera Traps Snap First Photos of Endangered Elephants (and Other Rare Species) in South Sudan
Dec 11, 2015
|
Earth Touch
Despite years of civil conflict in South Sudan, the nation’s wildlife seems to be persevering. A new camera trap survey has revealed that the country’s…
United States: SEC Proposes Rules for Resource Extraction Issuers under Dodd-Frank Act
Dec 11, 2015
|
US Securities and Exchange Commission
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose rules that would require resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to the U.S. federal government…
Iraq/Kurdistan: War with Islamic State, Low Oil Prices Cripple Once-Vibrant Economy in Iraq's Kurdish Region
Dec 10, 2015
|
Balint Szlanko, Associated Press
Less than two years ago, Iraq's northern Kurdish region was booming, as oil revenues poured in and foreign investors flocked to a rare island of…
Iraq/Syria/Islamic State: Leaked Budget Document Provides Glimpse into How ISIS Makes Money [Audio]
Dec 10, 2015
|
Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR
NPR explores how ISIS gets its money and why that makes it so hard to turn off the money spigot. It examines how ISIS makes…
Uganda: Family Members Abet Land Grabbing - Justice Bamwine
Dec 7, 2015
|
Ephraim Kasozi and Juliet Kigongo, The Monitor
Despite the existence of formal land disputes resolution mechanisms in the country, property grabbing remains most pervasive because people involved in most disputes are family…
Liberia: Burkinabes and Ghanaians Entering Liberia's Virgin Forest to Harvest Licorice Root – Says FDA Boss, Harrison Karnwea
Dec 7, 2015
|
Global News Network
The Managing Director of Liberian Forestry Development Authority has disclosed that people were coming from as far as Burkina Faso and Ghana and entering Liberia's…
Iraq/Islamic State: Iraq PM Says Turkey Main Conduit for Islamic State Oil-Smuggling
Dec 7, 2015
|
Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Monday that most of the oil produced in Islamic State-held territory in Iraq and Syria was being smuggled…
Colombia: Arrests Point to Urabeños' Evolving Role in Colombia's Illegal Mining
Dec 7, 2015
|
Michael Lohmuller, InSight Crime
Authorities in Colombia have dismantled a network of illegal mining operators allegedly working for drug trafficking group the Urabeños, providing further evidence of how the…