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Senior Consultant, Mid-Term Evaluation

Jun 11, 2018 | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) will commission a mid-term evaluation of the project “Restoration of degraded land for food security…


Egypt/Ethiopia: Egypt and Ethiopia Fend off Water Wars over Nile Mega-Dam

Jun 11, 2018 | Deutsche Welle

The leaders of Ethiopia and Egypt signaled on Sunday that their two countries had achieved a breakthrough in the ongoing dispute over the Grand Renaissance…


Afghanistan: Afghanistan Issues Tender for Hybrid Solar

Jun 11, 2018 | Emiliano Bellini, PV Magazine

The Ministry of energy and water of Afghanistan (MEW) has issued a tender for the construction of a 5 MW hybrid solar power plant in…


Yemen: WASH Coordinator

Jun 10, 2018 | Oxfam

Oxfam is a global movement of millions of people who share the belief that, in a world rich in resources, poverty isn't inevitable. To spread…


India: Sr. Project Officer / Project Officer - Community Engagement (Assam)

Jun 10, 2018 | World Wildlife Fund

WWF-India is one of the largest conservation organizations, engaged in wildlife and nature conservation in the country.  A vital component of our conservation work are…


Sudan/South Sudan: Juba and Khartoum Agree on Oil Production Resumption

Jun 10, 2018 | Joseph Oduha, Nation

South Sudan and the Sudan have agreed to reopen oil wells in the contested Heglig area on their common border. South Sudan's Information minister and…


Iraq: First Iraq-Flagged Oil Tanker in 3 Decades Leaves Port

Jun 10, 2018 | Agence France-Presse

An Iraq-flagged tanker carrying two million barrels of crude oil has set sail for the US, the first such trip in nearly three decades, the…


Not So Quiet on the Western Front: The Snowball Effect in Afghanistan

Jun 8, 2018 | Morwari Zafar

The deteriorating security in western Afghanistan may soon be worsened by a water crisis. A snowballing militancy, desiccating wetlands, and environmental migration create a trifecta…


Conflict Minerals: Unethically Mined Cobalt Haunts Companies’ Supply Chains

Jun 8, 2018 | Alyssa Danigelis, Environmental Leader

Cobalt, a chemical element crucial for making lithium-ion batteries, continues to be mined using child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With the DRC…


DRC: New DRC Mining Code Comes into Effect, Still Cause for Concern

Jun 8, 2018 | Mining Review

Regulations to immediately implement a new Mining Code in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be signed into law today. This follows the announcement that…


Uganda: Consultant, Conflict Analysis of Development Minerals in Uganda and Develop Conflict Sensitive Community Engagement Toolkit

Jun 7, 2018 | UNDP

UNDP in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development is implementing the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme in Uganda.  The three-year capacity building programme…


Iraq: Climate Change Specialist

Jun 7, 2018 | World Food Programme

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve…


Afghanistan: Programme Policy Officer (Policy Coherence)

Jun 7, 2018 | World Food Programme

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian Agency, fighting hunger worldwide. WFP has been working in Afghanistan since 1963. WFP…


Yemen: Water and Sanitation Coordinator

Jun 7, 2018 | United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

UNOPS supports the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to serve people in need by…


Afghanistan: Civil Engineer Agriculture

Jun 7, 2018 | Save the Children

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those…


Afghanistan: Hydrologist

Jun 7, 2018 | Save the Children

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those…


Rubber Product Manufacturing in Liberia in Sight at Last

Jun 7, 2018 | Observer

Liberia, Africa’s first independent and sovereign Republic, has also been, since the early 1930s, the continent’s first rubber producing country, and yet in nearly 90…


Liberia: Community Establishes Platform to Prevent and Mediate Conflicts in Senjeh

Jun 7, 2018 | FrontPageAfrica

“We, the citizens of Bomi County drawn from nine project affected communities and clans in Senjeh District comprising youth, women, chiefs, representatives of the Senjeh…


South Sudan: Resource Competition and Climate Change Hampering South Sudan Peace and Development

Jun 7, 2018 | UN Environment

Ongoing conflict in South Sudan continues to hinder its ability to sustainably manage and develop its natural resources, threatening the livelihoods of more than 10 million…


Liberia: USAID Wants Land Reform Feature in 'Pro-Poor Agenda'

Jun 7, 2018 | Abednego Davis, Observer

USAID's Deputy office director for Democracy and Governance yesterday told a gathering of stakeholders in the land sector that President George Weah's "pro-poor agenda" should…


Sudan/South Sudan: South Sudan, Sudan Agree to Repair Damaged Oil Infrastructure

Jun 7, 2018 | Reuters

South Sudan said on Thursday it had agreed with its northern neighbour Sudan to repair oil infrastructure facilities destroyed by conflict within three months to…


Conflict in Abyei Could Reignite South Sudan’s Civil War

Jun 6, 2018 | Sam Mednick

Abyei, Sudan/South Sudan — Landlocked and lawless, the region of Abyei straddles Sudan and war-torn South Sudan’s borders, yet the arid expanse belongs to neither…


South Sudan: South Sudan Launches UN-backed Environmental Policy Report

Jun 6, 2018 | Xinhua

South Sudan launched a UN-backed environmental policy and outlook report to tackle environmental challenges as the country commemorated the World Environment Day on Tuesday. Taban…


Sierra Leone News: NMA Provides Community Development Funds…Warns Chiefs Not to Misuse the Money

Jun 6, 2018 | Saffa B. Moriba, Awoko

The Natural Mineral Agency (NMA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) has dished out just over Le1 billion (Le1,124,841,246)…


Don't Turn to the Military to Solve the Climate-Change Crisis

Jun 5, 2018 | Nick Buxton

The Australian Senate’s declaration last month that climate change is a “current and existential national security risk” was clearly intended to inject much-needed urgency into the country’s…


Environmental Peacebuilding: What Is it Good or?

Jun 5, 2018 | Nina Engwicht

Policy interventions seeking to break the link between natural resource abundance and violent conflict aim to tackle the quality of environmental governance both in producer…


Afghanistan: IFC, MIGA Support Raisin Production in Afghanistan

Jun 5, 2018 | Jessica Combes, CPI Financial

IFC and MIGA, members of the World Bank Group, are providing $3 million in financing and $7.8 million in political risk insurance coverage for a…


Rwanda: Rwanda Minerals Export Revenues Increase by $207M

Jun 5, 2018 | Dan Ngabonziza, KT Press

Rwanda has registered one of the best performances in mining, in the last two years after earning more than double in exports. Francis Gatare, Chief…


Liberia: EJS Authorized US$500K Bonus Payments, NOCAL Board Minutes Reveals

Jun 5, 2018 | Rodney Sieh, FrontPageAfrica

Board resolution minutes of the National Oil Company of Liberia dated April 27, 2013 obtained by FrontPageAfrica suggest that former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf gave the…


Myanmar: More Than Just Pollution Concerns at Htein Bin Dump

Jun 5, 2018 | Kyaw Ye Lynn, Frontier

A fire that burned for weeks at a massive garbage dump on Yangon’s outskirts and polluted the atmosphere of several townships with foul-smelling smoke has…