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Conflict Diamonds: HSBC and Shimon Yelinek: Arms, Drugs, Diamonds and Terrorism
Feb 16, 2015
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Aliaume Leroy, McGill International Review
Shimon Yelinek is an Israeli businessman based in Panama. Behind this facade however, he is one of the most notorious criminals you may find among…
Iraq Has Lost Billions from Gas Flaring
Feb 15, 2015
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Saadallah Al Fathi
Last week I discussed the announcement of the Iraq-Shell petrochemical project in Basra and estimated to cost $11 billion (Dh40.3 billion). I surmised that the…
Iraq: Iraq Has Lost Billions from Gas Flaring
Feb 15, 2015
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Saadallah Al Fathi, gulfnews.com
In June 2012, the IEA estimated that the implied value of the gas flared in southern Iraq to 2020 would be $70 to $100 billion…
Liberia: Taylor-Era Wartime Timber Company Penalized, Accused of PUP Breach
Feb 15, 2015
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Front Page Africa
The Danish timber giant Dalhoff Larsen and Horneman (DLH), a company accused of buying conflict timber during Liberia’s civil war, has been stripped of its…
Sudan (Darfur) : Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst
Feb 13, 2015
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UNEP
UNEP’s projects in Darfur aim to show how improving effective and inclusive natural resource management can support sustainable recovery from natural and man-made disasters, strengthen…
Call for Papers: Humanitarian Evidence Programme
Feb 13, 2015
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Oxfam GB and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University
The Humanitarian Evidence Program has launched a Call for Proposals to synthesize evidence on the topics of (1) acute malnutrition, (2) market support interventions, and (3)…
Suspending EPA-L Boss Sign of Political Patronage?
Feb 13, 2015
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Morris T. Koffa, Sr.
It has come to the attention of the Africa Environmental Watch (AEW) that Hon. Anyaa Vohiri, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia…
Myanmar: EITI Board Members Rap Govt over Mine Death
Feb 13, 2015
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Thomas Kean, Myanmar Times
Civil society members of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative’s International Board have slammed the government over the death of a protester at the Letpadaung copper…
Timor-Leste: As Xanana Gusmao Departs, Timor Must Prepare for When the Oil Runs Dry
Feb 13, 2015
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Tom Allard, Sydney Morning Herald
In the annals of East Timor's extraordinary emergence as a nation state after 500 years of foreign domination, no figure has loomed as large as…
Liberia: NOCAL ‘Lawyer’ Whistleblower in 25K Oil Saga Dead
Feb 13, 2015
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Mae Azango and Al Varney Rogers, Front Page Africa
Monrovia - Cllr. Michael Allison, the former consultant to the National Oil Company of Liberia who reportedly blew the whistle that had led to an…
Towards an Integrated Approach to the Material Legacies of War: Landmines, Explosive Remnants of War and Environmental Contamination
Feb 12, 2015
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Matthew Bolton and Doug Weir
The world is infused with all kinds of risks – to our security, to our livelihoods, to our environment – that are interwoven in complex…
Natural Resource Management as a Key to Peace in the Central African Republic
Feb 12, 2015
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Kathrine Edelen
Beginning in late 2012, a rehabilitated coalition of ex-rebel militia fighters, known as Séléka, reignited conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) over what it…
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Country Director
Feb 12, 2015
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World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
The WWF Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) programme has a large portfolio of field programmes in different landscapes, including Salonga, Lac Tumba, Virunga, Itombwe and…
Iraq: Iraq's Oil Exports Dip by 14 Percent in January
Feb 12, 2015
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Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press
Iraq's Oil Ministry said on Thursday that crude exports averaged 2.535 million barrels a day in January, a decrease of nearly 14 percent from the…
South Sudan: Conflict a Cause of Hunger in South Sudan
Feb 12, 2015
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Norwegian Refugee Council
“The critical food situation is worsening for the 2.5 million people at risk in South Sudan. There is an urgent need for a solution on…
Liberia: Danish Timber Giant Kicked Out of Forest Stewardship Council Certification Scheme for Trading Illegal Timber
Feb 12, 2015
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Global Witness
Danish timber giant Dalhoff Larsen and Horneman (DLH) has been expelled from the world’s leading timber certifier, the Forest Stewardship Council, following evidence presented by…
Afghanistan: Watchdog: DOD Ignored Troop Health Risks, Continued to Burn Trash in Afghanistan
Feb 12, 2015
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Heath Druzin, Stars and Stripes
The U.S. military knowingly put troops’ health at risk and wasted tens of millions of dollars on shoddy contracts while operating dangerous open-air burn pits…
Conflict Minerals: Apple Takes Initiative in Verifying Smelters for Approaching Conflict Minerals Reporting Deadline
Feb 11, 2015
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3BL Media
The world's second largest technology company, Apple, has acknowledged that the best way to ensure a conflict free supply chain is by having a process…
South Sudan: S. Sudan’s Oil Production Showing Signs of Recovery: Minister
Feb 11, 2015
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Hellenic Shipping News
South Sudan’s oil ministry said production is starting to recover for the first time since conflict erupted more than a year ago, severely disrupting exploration.
Petroleum…
South Sudan: South Sudan Eyeing Mining to Reduce Dependency on Oil
Feb 11, 2015
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Sudan Tribune
Concerned about the current decline in prices of crude oil in the global market, South Sudan is turning to mining sector to reduce dependency on…
China/Philippines/South China Sea: China Must Abide by Sea Ruling, Philippine Justice Says
Feb 11, 2015
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Andrea Tan, Bloomberg
China must comply with any ruling on competing territorial claims with the Philippines in the South China Sea even if it refuses to participate in…
DRC: DRC Mining Industry Worried by Country’s Stop to Mining Code Talks
Feb 10, 2015
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Henry Lazenby, Mining Weekly
The mining industry operating within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is concerned about last week's decision taken by the Mines Ministry to shun further…
China/South China Sea: China Finds Sizable Natural Gas Field in South China Sea
Feb 10, 2015
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Associated Press
China said its recent gas discovery in the politically volatile South China Sea could yield 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas, underlining Beijing's determination…
Broken Land, Broken Promises - Myanmar's Controversial Copper Mines
Feb 10, 2015
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Deutsche Welle
"Sometimes there is a very strong smell from the sulphuric acid factory; people cannot stay in the village at those times. Our eyes tear up…
Iraq/Kurdistan: In Payment Drought, Oil Companies Pare KRG Investment
Feb 10, 2015
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Patrick Osgood, Iraq Oil Report
Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has not paid its oil contractors since November, highlighting political and financial problems that could hamper plans to increase…
Larry Koehrsen: Climate Security
Feb 9, 2015
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Larry Koehrsen
Guns or solar panels. Tanks or wind turbines. Homeland security exploded into our consciousness on 9/11 and has defined much of who we are ever…
Climate Security Threat: We Need to Do More
Feb 9, 2015
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Anthony Bergin and Michael Thomas
Our chief ally says climate change is an urgent and growing threat to national security. The Australian Defence Force needs to do more to address…
Iraq: EIA: Iraq Oil Production Growth was World’s Second Largest in 2014
Feb 9, 2015
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Oil & Gas 360
According to information released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) today, Iraq’s production growth in 2014 was the second largest in the world, trailing only…
Myanmar: Investors Eye Myanmar's Rich Potential for Rice Growing
Feb 9, 2015
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Petchanet Pratruangkrai, The Nation
Myanmar may go back to being one of the world's major rice exporters in five to 10 years, as many Thai and foreign investors are…
Myanmar: Shell to Explore in Deepwater Offshore Myanmar
Feb 9, 2015
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World Oil
The Hague, Netherlands -- Shell and its partner Mitsui Oil Exploration group (MOECO) have signed exploration and production sharing contracts with Myanma Oil and Gas…