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Myanmar: How CERF-Supported Solar Power Is Transforming Life and Dignity in Myanmar’s Dry Zone
Jan 28, 2026
UN Children's Fund and UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UNICEF, through critical funding from the OCHA-managed UN Global Emergency Fund (CERF), helped install a fully solar-powered water system bringing clean, reliable water directly to…
Liberia: Green Guard Eco Solutions Promises Carbon Capture, Renewable Energy Production, Jobs and Regional Leadership
Jan 28, 2026
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Jaheim T. Tumu
FrontPage Africa
Green Guard Eco-Solution and the Philippines-based Alterna Verde Cooperation have projected Liberia as a regional hub for waste-to-energy innovation, climate mitigation, and sustainable livelihoods when…
Water Cooperation Is Under Threat
Jan 26, 2026
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Susanne Schmeier, Melissa McCracken, and Aaron Wolf
Rivers, lakes, and aquifers ignore borders and politics, binding countries, people, and ecosystems together. This shared reality has long required cooperation, even among states divided…
India: Securing Animals' Food Sources Reduces Conflict with Humans
Jan 26, 2026
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Aditya Pandey and Sudeshna Chowdhury
In India’s north‑eastern state of Assam, growing human‑elephant conflict is revealing how fragile food security and shrinking habitats affect both people and wildlife. As forests…
Liberia: Forest Keepers in Lofa Await Conservation Benefits
Jan 26, 2026
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Tina S. Mehnpaine
FrontPage Africa
As former hunters, townsmen now serve as forest guards for a REDD+ project protecting the Wonegizi forest from logging, farming, and poaching. Partnering with the…
Afghanistan: Kabul on the Brink of Collapse: The Ground beneath Millions Is Sinking
Jan 26, 2026
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Kazim Homayoun
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
Imagine a city of more than six million people where the ground beneath their feet sinks a little more each day. Kabul, the capital of…
Exposing the Rural Insecurity behind Nigeria’s Food Crisis
Jan 25, 2026
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Lekan Olayiwola
Nigeria’s food crisis is often described in the language of numbers: inflation rates, tonnage of grains lost, millions displaced, and millions hungry. These figures matter,…
The Looming Hydrological Crisis: How Water Weaponization Threatens Regional Stability and International Order
Jan 24, 2026
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Jamal Khan
Rising tensions over shared rivers in South Asia highlight how water management disputes increasingly threaten regional stability, human security, and broader international order.
In 21st-century geopolitics,…
Applications Open for IPT Specialization Course on Environmental Peacebuilding
Jan 24, 2026
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Austrian Centre for Peace
Applications for the IPT Specialization Course on Environmental Peacebuilding (24 April - 2 May 2026) are being received through 1 April 2026.
For more information on…
Why Sudan Is Drawing a Red Line around the Heglig Oil Field
Jan 23, 2026
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OilPrice.com
On the Sudan civil war front, the government is trying to draw a hard boundary around a shrinking but still critical part of the oil…
Afghanistan’s Secret Gold Rush Risks Poisoning Its Waters
Jan 23, 2026
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Shahla Muram and Nadja Kunz
Afghanistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change, and the largely hidden gold rush in Badakhshan is not only endangering the lives…
Afghanistan: Long-Awaited First Snowfall Brings Relief to Water-Scarce Kabul
Jan 23, 2026
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Aysha Safi
Agence France-Presse
Snow usually comes to the Afghan capital in December, but its six million inhabitants are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change, which has brought…
Nigeria: Ranching as a Path to Ending Herder–Farmer Conflicts
Jan 23, 2026
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Humaid Rabiu Shehu
PRNigeria
For decades, the farmers–herders conflict has ranked among Nigeria’s most persistent and destabilising internal security challenges. What began as seasonal disputes over land and water…
Myanmar: AA Discovers 78 Landmines over Two Days While Clearing Mines in Maungdaw
Jan 23, 2026
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Maung Sar Ga
Narinjara News
The Arakan Army (AA) has uncovered 78 landmines within a two-day mine clearance mission in Maungdaw Township, located on the western border of Rakhine State.
The…
Mali/Mauritania/Senegal: Senegal, Mali, Mauritania Launch $7M Cross-Border Water Project for Peace
Jan 22, 2026
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Lydie Mobio
Ecofin Agency
Senegal, Mali, and Mauritania have launched a cross-border project aimed at making sustainable water management a strategic tool for cooperation, peace, and climate resilience in…
Getting Critical Minerals Certification and Due Diligence Right in the DRC-Rwanda Accord and beyond (With a Lesson from a Punk Band?)
Jan 21, 2026
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Brad Brooks-Rubin
Most current analysis focuses on the core challenge of how critical minerals can be extracted in a smooth and efficient manner, on the one hand,…
DRC: DRC Offers US Access to Its Most Valuable Minerals
Jan 21, 2026
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Bashir Mbuthia
Eastleigh Voice
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has submitted a shortlist of state-owned mining assets to the United States for potential investment, giving Washington direct access…
Nature Loss Is a National Security Risk, Intelligence Group Warns
Jan 21, 2026
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Mark Poynting
BBC
The decline in the health of nature around the world poses a threat to the UK's security and prosperity, an intelligence committee has concluded in…
Syria: Syria’s Energy Sector Set to Get a Boost after Kurdish Oilfield Takeover
Jan 21, 2026
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Fareed Rahman
The National
The takeover of major oilfields by the Syrian government from Kurdish forces is expected to help Damascus boost its oil revenue and reduce imports. The…
Iraq: How Iraq’s Oil Sector Is Emerging as Battleground for Russia, US
Jan 21, 2026
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Mohanad Faris
Amwaj.media
Upending dynamics in Iraq’s energy sector, Baghdad has announced that it is nationalizing the West Qurna-2 oil field following the exit of the site’s Russian…
Water: Humanity Is Running out of Water and It Could Mean War, UN Warns
Jan 21, 2026
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Adam Vidler
9NEWS
Every human life, household, and community on the planet is sustained by water - to bathe, to grow food, and of course, to drink. And…
Afghanistan: Taliban Detain Protesters over Gold Mining Dispute in Takhar
Jan 21, 2026
Amu TV
Taliban intelligence forces have begun detaining protesters in Chah Ab district in northeastern province of Takhar, following weeks of unrest linked to gold mining activities,…
The Arctic Illusion: Why Greenland Proves That Climate Cooperation Is a Myth
Jan 20, 2026
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Anusreeta Dutta
For decades, the Arctic has been portrayed as an outlier in world politics, where science prevails over enmity and climate cooperation trumps strategic conflict. We…
Kurdistan’s Oil Lifeline at Risk as Baghdad Payments Fall Short Again
Jan 20, 2026
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Simon Watkins
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is once again edging toward a fiscal breaking point. Officials in its Erbil-based semi-autonomous regional government (KRG) say they…
Iraq: “Ecocide” in Iraq: Oil Expansion Threatens to Remove Hawizeh Marsh from the UNESCO List
Jan 20, 2026
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Haydar Al-Saadi, Hala Nasreddine, and Yann Philippin
Daraj
This investigation reveals that four oil and gas licenses in Iraq overlap with about 400 km² of land within roughly seven protected areas, most prominently…
Syria: Syria’s War-Ravaged Oil Sector Faces Tough Road to Recovery, Analysts Say
Jan 20, 2026
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John Power
Al Jazeera
The Syrian government’s takeover of key oil and gas fields from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the country’s northeast has raised hopes for…
CCT Workshop Scholarships Available! [Deadline: January 28, 2026]
Jan 20, 2026
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Center for Conservation Peacebuilding
CPeace is delighted to have received funding for four partial scholarships for its Fundamentals of CCT Workshop being held March 2nd–6th in Washington, DC. Each…
Call for Submissions — Environmental Research Letters Focus Issue: Focus on Initial and Enduring Environmental Consequences of Armed Conflict
Jan 20, 2026
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Environmental Research Letters
Recent years have seen a sharp rise in armed conflicts worldwide with some estimates pointing to a roughly 25% increase in conflict events each year…
Afghanistan: The Unseen Drought: How Widespread Female Illiteracy Threatens Water Conservation
Jan 20, 2026
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Numan Rahim
Khaama Press
Female illiteracy in Afghanistan undermines water conservation, leaving millions at risk as households struggle with scarcity, poor hygiene, and inefficient water use practices.
While global water…
Gold in Sudan: The Resource That Never Became Wealth — A Vast Asset with No Developmental Impact
Jan 19, 2026
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Mohannad Awad Mahmoud
Since Sudan lost the bulk of its oil revenues following South Sudan’s secession in 2011, gold has become the country’s most important source of foreign…