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US: Director, Peace Program

Jul 22, 2026 | MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation

About the Foundation:

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the nation's largest independent foundations. The Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions,…


DRC: Critical Minerals Must Be Treated as a Peace, Security Issue

Jul 22, 2026 | Lesego Lebuso
Channel Africa

The United Nations (UN) Security Council has debated whether rising demand for critical minerals will support development or deepen conflict, corruption and inequality. 


DRC: Congo’s Local Ownership Rule for Miners: 2026 Enforcement Explained

Jul 22, 2026 | Muflih Hidayat
Discovery Alert

Across the African continent, a structural shift has been building for decades. Resource-rich nations that once surrendered favourable terms to attract foreign capital are now…


Colombia: Papaya Helps Rebuild Livelihoods and Trust in Rural Colombia

Jul 22, 2026
Fruit Today

In Los Montes de María, a region deeply affected by armed conflict, the ASOAGROPAT association has turned papaya growing into a source of income, community…


Climate Security: Entering a New Era?

Jul 21, 2026 | Kaysie Brown and Travis Brubaker

Twenty years after the UK first brought climate to the UN Security Council, the topic is re-emerging as a strategic priority. During London Climate Action…


DRC: Ebola Curbs Strain US-Congo Minerals Pact

Jul 21, 2026
Miningmx

US travel restrictions imposed over Congo’s Ebola outbreak are complicating a fledgling economic partnership between the two nations.


Afghanistan: Parched Lands: Climate Change Is Destroying Afghanistan’s Agriculture

Jul 21, 2026 | Fakhruddin Qarizada
The Killid Group

Declining rainfall, recurring droughts, and increasingly extreme climate conditions have pushed Afghanistan’s agricultural sector into a deepening crisis. Farmers across the country say shrinking harvests…


Afghanistan: Badakhshan Mine Workers Protest Taliban Ban on Mining

Jul 21, 2026
Afghanistan International

A number of mine workers in Badakhshan protested on Tuesday over the Taliban’s continued closure of mining sites, saying Taliban forces threatened and beat some…


Palestine: In Gaza, a Mother's Hunt for Water Lays Bare a Worsening Health Crisis

Jul 21, 2026 | Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
Reuters

Aid agencies, UN officials and Palestinian health authorities warn that Gaza is facing an unprecedented collapse ​of its water and sanitation systems, leaving much of…


Request for Expressions of Interest: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment to Inform the Potential Designation of Wonegizi and Wologizi as Protected or Conserved Areas (PCAs)

Jul 21, 2026 | Gret

Gret has received a financing from Agence Française de Développement (“AFD”), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under the following…


Palestine: Humanitarian Mine Action Technical Advisor

Jul 21, 2026 | Danish Refugee Council

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a Leading protection agency pursuing our mandate to protect and promote durable solutions to displacement-affected populations based on humanitarian…


Rwanda: Forest Landscape Restoration Program Design Coordinator (Fixed-Term)

Jul 21, 2026 | One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to…


WASH in Emergencies Specialist - Roster Recruitment

Jul 21, 2026 | Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan believes in the power and potential of…


Chad/Sudan: Consultancy - Comparative Feasibility Study of Household Cooking Fuel and Cooking Modalities Options in Sudan and Chad

Jul 21, 2026 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International (SI) is a French humanitarian organization providing lifesaving assistance to populations affected by armed conflict, natural disasters, and epidemics for more than 40…


Afghanistan: Deputy Area Director - Program (M/F) - Herat

Jul 21, 2026 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and…


Consultancy for Drafting a Climate & Environment Education Curriculum

Jul 21, 2026 | Terre des hommes

Terre des hommes (Tdh) teams increasingly face the direct and indirect impacts of climate change and environmental degradation in their humanitarian and development work on…


Sierra Leone: Programme Technical Lead - Climate Resilience & Economic Empowerment

Jul 21, 2026 | Trócaire

Trócaire is an International NGO that works with local partners in the world’s most at-risk communities and with people in Ireland to tackle the underlying…


Somalia: Learning and Adaptive Management Consultancy for Advancing Adaptation through Resilient Mobility and Natural Capital (AARAN) Project

Jul 21, 2026 | Norwegian Refugee Council

Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS) is a Consortium of national and international organizations – Action Against Hunger (ACF), Concern Worldwide (Concern), GREDO, the International…


Hydrodiplomacy: A Tool for Climate and Environmental Resilience, Peace and Security [Deadline: September 7, 2026]

Jul 21, 2026 | Cyprus Security and Defence Academy and Cyprus Institute

The Cyprus Security and Defence Academy and the Cyprus Institute in cooperation with the University of Balamand and its Climate Diplomacy & Sustainable Peace Hub,…


Somalia: IGAD Launches Initiative to Strengthen Women’s Economic Resilience and Inclusive Peacebuilding in Somalia

Jul 20, 2026
Intergovernmental Authority on Development

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), with financial support from the African Development Bank (AfDB) through the Transition Support Facility (TSF), has officially launched the…


Liberia: Cocoa Rush Overruns Liberian County Once 99 Percent Forested

Jul 19, 2026
WOODCENTRAL

Grand Gedeh has lost more forest in a single year than any Liberian county on record since 2002, with an unpublished government count putting migrant…


Liberia: Something Strange Is Happening in Liberia

Jul 19, 2026 | Ashoka Mukpo and Juan Maza
Mongabay

Liberia is losing its rainforest at an alarming rate. Satellite data reveals rapid deforestation across one of West Africa’s last remaining intact rainforests, driven largely…


Climate Change: The Impossible Politics of Climate Security

Jul 19, 2026 | Hammad Sarfraz
Express Tribune

Ashok Swain’s Climate Security is not a comfortable book, nor does it pretend to be. At a time when climate anxiety is increasingly wrapped in…


DRC: Congo Begins First-Ever Lithium Exports to China, Unlocking the World’s Largest Undeveloped Hard-Rock Reserves

Jul 18, 2026 | Awogbemila Temitope
Business Insider

A new report has revealed that China's mining company, Zijin has started exporting lithium concentrate from its Manono project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.…


Liberia: Liberia’s Landmark Land Rights Law Risks Falling Short

Jul 17, 2026 | Lincoln G. Peters
New Dawn

Eight years after Liberia enacted the Land Rights Act of 2018,  government officials, lawmakers, civil society organizations, and development partners have warned that the initiative…


Liberia: ‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the Scenes with Mongabay

Jul 17, 2026 | Ashoka Mukpo
Mongabay

Mongabay’s investigation into deforestation in Liberia started with a tip from a source last year.


Bridging the Conflict Gap in Climate Action and Finance

Jul 16, 2026 | ODI Global

Many of the world’s most climate-vulnerable people live in place affected by armed conflict, violence, and fragility. Yet fragile and conflict-affected countries receive just 10%…


The Abyei Dispute: Why South Sudan Is on the Right Side of History

Jul 16, 2026 | Amaju Ubur Yalamoi Ayani

First and foremost, the unresolved status of the Abyei Area stands as a stark indictment of failed diplomatic processes and an enduring obstacle to lasting…


South Sudan’s Oil Is Flowing, but Who Really Gets Paid?

Jul 16, 2026 | Warille B. Warille

A recent partial settlement between the Government of South Sudan and commodities trader BB Energy has eased restrictions imposed by the London High Court, which…


Food Security: UN Food Agency Says Conflict Is Pushing Healthy Diets beyond Reach Worldwide

Jul 16, 2026 | Namo Abdulla
Rudaw

A healthy diet is slipping beyond reach for a growing number of people around the world as conflict drives up the cost of fuel, fertilizer…