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Central African Republic: Director of Programs

Jan 27, 2017 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…


Afghanistan: Chief of Party

Jan 27, 2017 | Chemonics

Chemonics seeks a chief of party for the anticipated five year USAID Energy and Natural Resources Development Support program in Kabul, Afghanistan. The program will support…


Jordan: MENA Regional WASH Advisor

Jan 27, 2017 | Oxfam GB

In MENA Region, Oxfam works in development, humanitarian, and campaigning, with a large part of the current transformation focused on a more joined-up approach by…


Iraq: WASH Project Manager

Jan 27, 2017 | Croix-Rouge Française

FRC is about to launch a project which aims at addressing the sanitation and hygiene needs of the communities on Sinjar mountain by:

increasing the latrine…


DRC: Resilience and Peacebuilding Landscape Assessment

Jan 27, 2017 | Search for Common Ground

Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is an international non-profit organization that promotes peaceful transformation of conflict. With headquarters in Washington, DC and in Brussels, Belgium,…


South Sudan: Technical Expert/Agricultural Advisor

Jan 27, 2017 | International Organization for Migration

IOM is responsible for Camp Coordination and Camp Management in the Bentiu Protection of Civilian (PoC) site. IOM requires a technical expert to conduct research…


DRC: Project Manager

Jan 27, 2017 | Cooperazione internazionale

COOPI intervenes in contexts of emergency, reconstruction and development in order to facilitate a better equilibrium between developed and developing areas of the world.

Responsabilités…


Israel: Program Manager I - Program Quality Manager

Jan 27, 2017 | Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. Our Catholic identity is…


Trump, Iraqi Oil and International Law

Jan 27, 2017 | Sarah Saadoun

In an interview with ABC News anchor David Muir on January 25, 2017, President Donald Trump repeated his position that the United States “should have taken the oil” from Iraq during…


Trump, ISIS and Iraqi Oil

Jan 27, 2017 | Eugene Kiely

President Donald Trump claimed that the Islamic State, or ISIS, would not exist if the U.S. “kept the oil when we got out” of Iraq.…


Conflict Minerals: European Parliamentary Committee Backs Conflict Minerals Regulation

Jan 27, 2017 | Tammy Lovell, Chemical Watch

European parliamentary committee backs conflict minerals Regulation. The European Parliament's international trade committee (Inta) has backed an agreement to adopt an EU Regulation on conflict…


Food Security: How Drought and Rising Prices Led to Conflict in Syria

Jan 26, 2017 | Aled Jones

But what [Charlotte Church] said was correct – and there will be an increasing convergence of climate, food, economic and political crises in the coming…


Myanmar: Kachin Park Handed Back to Original Owners

Jan 26, 2017 | Eleven

Some parts of the Kareinnaw recreation gardens, one of the most prominent parks in Myitkyina, has been transferred to the family of the original owner,…


Myanmar: Dozens Facing Trespass Charge for Cutting Bamboo in Delta

Jan 26, 2017 | Mratt Kyaw Thu, Frontier

Thirty-seven farmers in Ayeyarwady Region are facing the possibility of prison time after the son of a retired military officer accused them of cutting bamboo…


Does Myanmar Need a Gemstone Law?

Jan 25, 2017 | Paul Shortell

In July 2016, Myanmar’s government took the positive step of suspending jade and gemstone licensing until relevant laws could be reviewed and an environmental management plan for…


Conflict Minerals in 2017 – What’s New?

Jan 25, 2017 | Dynda A. Thomas

It’s January 2017, and some believe it will be the last year for the SECs conflict minerals rule.

President Trump’s inclination to roll back regulation reduces or…


Famine Isn't Just a Result of Conflict—It's a Cause

Jan 25, 2017 | Justa Hopma

The relationship between food insecurity and conflict is almost so logical that it appears to state the obvious: Conditions of food insecurity contribute to the…


Why Iraq Needs the Oil

Jan 25, 2017 | Jack Watling

Baghdad’s control of Iraq’s provinces is, in part, based on its custodianship of the country’s petrodollars, with the oil sector contributing up to 99 percent…


Myanmar: Mandalay Govt to Confiscate Unused Farmland

Jan 25, 2017 | Eleven

The Mandalay Region government announced Tuesday that it will confiscate unused farmland from its current owners. The announcement stated the government plans to confiscate 40,895…


Iraq: PM Abadi Says Iraq's Oil is for Iraqis, in Reaction to Trump

Jan 24, 2017 | Reuters

Iraq's oil is the property of Iraqis, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday, in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump who argued that the…


Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pakistan Aims for Water Treaty with Afghanistan

Jan 23, 2017 | Maqbool Malikm, The Nation

Pakistan is about to start talks with Afghanistan to secure a bilateral treaty for the use of water related to Kabul River. The move apparently…


Iraq: The Minister of Oil Declares the Accomplishment of the Draft of the Oil and Gas Law

Jan 23, 2017 | Rebuilding Iraq

Mr. Jabbar A. Allibi, the Minister of Oil, declared for the accomplishment of the laws of the national petroleum company and the national gas company…


Liberia: Chinese Firm to Make $2.6bn Investment in Liberian Iron Ore Mining

Jan 23, 2017 | Tech Featured

China Union intends to spend US$2.6bn to bring the Bong iron ore deposit to production within two years, and will also recondition the capital’s port…


Afghanistan/Iran: Afghan Authorities Accuse Iran of Using Taliban to Undercut Water Projects

Jan 23, 2017 | Noor Zahid, Voice of America

Afghan governors in southern and western provinces charged on Monday that Iran is using an increasingly close relationship with the Afghan Taliban to target power…


India: MPs’ Panel Asks WB to Arbitrate on Indus Waters Treaty

Jan 21, 2017 | Israr Khan, The News

In the face of the India’s threat to Indus Water Treaty 1960, Pakistani parliamentarians in a special combine standing committee on foreign affairs and water…


Iraq: Trump on Iraq: ‘We Should Have Kept the oil’

Jan 21, 2017 | Danny McDonald, Boston Globe

On the day after he was sworn in as the 45th president in American history, Donald Trump stepped in foreign policy controversy, saying the US…


Water Wars: Hedging Bets in the South China Sea

Jan 20, 2017 | Chris Mirasola

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe followed last week’s trip to Manila with a busy schedule of state visits to Canberra, Jakarta, and Hanoi reaffirming Japan’s role in…


Myanmar: Freed Myanmar Farmers Renew Fight against Army over Land

Jan 20, 2017 | Wa Lone, Reuters

Farmers locked in a land dispute with Myanmar's armed forces pledged to renew their fight after being released from jail on Friday, in a case…


Iraq: Iraqi Sheep, Locals, Environment Suffer Islamic State Oil Fires

Jan 19, 2017 | Girish Guptam, Reuters

Shepherds herd blackened flocks through the Iraqi desert. Locals cough and wheeze under vast clouds of smoke, and NASA images show oil threatening to encroach…


Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Police Halt Anti-China Protest over Islands

Jan 19, 2017 | Reuters

Police in Vietnam's capital stopped an anti-China protest within minutes on Thursday at a ceremony to commemorate a clash between the two countries in the…