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DRC: Dealers Fleece Diggers for a Share of DRC's Illegal Gold
Feb 20, 2015
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African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting
Western companies mining gold industrially in DRC have diggers on their land, but fear that if they work them the companies will be accused by…
Liberia: 'GVL Must Vacate Our Land'
Feb 20, 2015
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Alloycious David, All Africa Global Media
Aggrieved citizens of Butaw District in Sinoe County are calling on the management of Golden Veroleum Liberia to pay compensation for villages, crops and ancestral…
China: How China is Transforming the South China Sea
Feb 20, 2015
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Gabriel Dominguez, DW
New images reveal the extent of China's land reclamation and construction in the South China Sea. Experts warn the new developments will make it increasingly…
Myanmar: Canadian Mining Firm May Have Breached Sanctions, Rights Group Says
Feb 20, 2015
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Seamus Martov, The Irrawaddy
For many years, Canada’s since-rebranded Ivanhoe Mines was one of the very few Western mining companies involved in Burma through its stake in one of…
Libya: Libyan oil flows resume from largest field
Feb 20, 2015
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Staff Writer, Al Arabiya News
Libya has resumed pumping crude from the southeastern Sarir field to the Hariga port, a spokesman for the state oil operator AGOCO said on Monday.…
Apply to the Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation in Border Regions, Ecuador
Feb 19, 2015
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The McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies of the University of Massachusetts-Boston, FLACSO-Ecuador, and the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC)
Border zones can be sites of conflict among states and transnational actors over currency and trade, migration and refugees, environmental threats, and contested sovereignty. Trained,…
United Kingdom: Campaign Leader
Feb 19, 2015
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Global Witness
Do you want to lead and direct a global campaign against land grabbing?
Global Witness is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Campaign Leader to lead…
Liberia: A Dangerous Trend against Corruption Fight
Feb 19, 2015
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All Africa
A consultant hired by the National Legislature to craft the new oil law is a dead man and nobody knows what may have been responsible…
Iraq: Falling Oil Prices Reveal Iraq’s Structural Problem
Feb 19, 2015
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Etienne Lepers - International Policy Digest
Despite all the attention to falling oil prices over the last six months, the impact on the world economy has not and will not be…
China/South China Sea: Fishing Wars: China’s Aggression Could Stoke Future Conflict
Feb 19, 2015
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Johan Bergenas and Ariella Knight, World Politics Review
The Vikings conquered the high seas to plunder and pillage. The British established their empire by dominating the oceans. And in the past 40 years,…
Timor-Leste: Greater Sunrise Is Crucial For Timor Sea Development
Feb 19, 2015
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Lauren Barrett, Hart Energy
Hydrocarbon discoveries in the Timor Sea are plentiful, but there is much conjecture as to whether brownfield or greenfield development is the best way to…
DRC: 'Conflict Minerals' Law Reaps Unforeseen Results
Feb 19, 2015
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Ciaran McEvoy, Investor's Business Daily
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then critics of an obscure provision in the Dodd-Frank Act believe there is a highway…
Myanmar: Myanmar’s Mysterious Uranium is No Panacea
Feb 19, 2015
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Chan Mya Htwe and Phyo Lwin Aung, The Trade Times
A claim of a uranium find in Mandalay Division has sparked debate over whether the country should pursue nuclear power. The billionaire tycoon Tay Za…
Climate Change and Terrorism
Feb 18, 2015
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Keith Kloor
Last month, after the terrorist attacks in Paris, Nature published a Q & Awith an anthropologist who studies the murderous motivations of Islamic extremists. He discussed socio-cultural factors and an allure…
Why Can't Uganda Simply Stamp out Blood Minerals?
Feb 18, 2015
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Jeff Mbanga
Let's talk about blood minerals today. About nine years ago, I was assigned to write a story about Uganda's gold exports. Back then, as it…
South Sudan: Country Director
Feb 17, 2015
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Plan Limited
Plan South Sudan has been responding to the current humanitarian crisis since December 2013, supporting IDPs and vulnerable host communities through its integrated interventions in…
Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone: Country Head
Feb 17, 2015
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BRAC International
The Country Representative will be part of the senior management team of BRAC Iinternational and have shared accountability for programmatic and operational activities. As head of the country…
Central African Republic: Food Security Project Manager
Feb 17, 2015
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Tearfund
Tearfund is looking for an experienced Project Manager to manage the Food Security sector of our post conflict rehabilitation projects in the Central African Republic.…
Nepal: Gender and Natural Resource Management Specialist
Feb 17, 2015
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International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
ICIMOD is looking for a gender expert with substantive conceptual and theoretical knowledge and understanding of gender issues in natural resource management, climate change, and…
Cambodia: Project Coordinator
Feb 17, 2015
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WWF - Cambodia
WWF-Cambodia is looking for a qualified Project Coordinator, Supporting Forests and Biodiversity Project (SFB), who will oversee the management and coordination of all SFB related…
Yemen: International Consultant - Integrated Water Resources Management Specialist
Feb 17, 2015
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Under the general supervision of the FAO Representative in Yemen and the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Advisor of the project, and in close…
Myanmar: Field Officer for Improvement of Hygienic Environment
Feb 17, 2015
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Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development
NICCO is currently implementing a project for the improvement of hygienic environment and the provision of primary healthcare in the border areas in the Kayin…
Yemen: Irrigation Specialist
Feb 17, 2015
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Under the general supervision of the FAO Representative in Yemen and the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Adviser of the project, and in close…
Bangladesh: Iftekharuzzaman: State Patronising Festival of Land Grabbing in CHT
Feb 17, 2015
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Abid Azad, Dhaka Tribune
The state has been patronising a grand festival of land grabbing in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, said International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) member Dr…
South Sudan: S. Sudan Halts Parliamentary Activities over Lack of Funds
Feb 17, 2015
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Sudan Vision
JUBA – South Sudan’s parliamentary speaker has admitted that almost all parliamentary activities have been halted due to a lack of funds.
In an exclusive interview…
Iraq: Baghdad-Erbil Accord Over Oil Sales Breaking Down
Feb 17, 2015
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World Bulletin
The Dec. 5 oil-revenue sharing agreement between the Kurdish Regional Government, or KRG, and the Iraqi central government is unwinding, observers and experts said on…
Sierra Leone: Land Owning Families in Eastern Sierra Leone Sue Chinese Company and Paramount Chief to Recover Land
Feb 17, 2015
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Sonkita Conteh, The Sierra Express
Land owning families in Nimiyama Chiefdom, Kono District, Eastern Sierra Leone have commenced legal action in the country’s High Court against Orient Agricultural Ltd –…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's KRG PM Threatens to Withhold Oil Exports Without Budget Share
Feb 16, 2015
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Reuters
Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government may withhold crude oil exports if Baghdad does not send its share of the budget, Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani…
Timor-Leste: Call for New Approach to Timor Sea Negotiations
Feb 16, 2015
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Darren Mara, SBS
A new government has been sworn in in East Timor after the resignation of Xanana Gusmao from the post of Prime Minister.
Rui Araujo will now…
Myanmar: Jade Trade Bedevils Burma’s Transparency Aspirations
Feb 16, 2015
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Seamus Martov, The Irrawaddy
While Burma pushes ahead with plans to become a full-fledged member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global standard promoting openness in the…