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DRC: The Resource War: How Minerals Fuel the Conflict in Congo

Oct 4, 2025 | Dragos Alexandru Ionita
Modern Diplomacy

In Central Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo is once again facing an escalating conflict between the government forces and the March 23 rebel movement.…

Land/Food Security: Experts Warn: Land Rights Disputes Hurt Food Security

Oct 4, 2025 | Patricia Tembo
Food For Mzansi

The Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (CoRE-SFS), hosted by the University of Pretoria, recently held a webinar series tackling key themes…

Ethiopia: Country Director

Oct 3, 2025 | ActionAid Ethiopia
Relief Web

ABOUT ACTIONAID

ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) is a Gender justice and poverty eradication organization. In Ethiopia, ActionAid works to challenge gender inequalities and the structural causes of…

The Violence of Hunger: The 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report

Oct 3, 2025 | Eugene Cho

This summer, the 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report gave us the most current look at hunger across the globe. The…

DRC: Beans that Break the Cycle: Food, Freedom and Female Power in DRC

Oct 3, 2025 | Bola Amoke Awotide, Julie Ntawinja, Yohane Chideya, Hosny Dunia, Richard Kataliko, Lucky Kalisya, and Jean Claude Rubyogo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

In eastern DRC, women are reclaiming land through the B4WE project, using biofortified beans to fight malnutrition, gain economic independence, and foster peace. Farming is…

Afghanistan: Kabul Residents Face Severe Water Shortages, Call for Urgent Action

Oct 3, 2025
Asian News International

Residents of Kabul's District 5 have raised alarm over a worsening water crisis, complaining that they lack daily access to clean drinking water.

Sri Lanka: Landmark UN Study Links Climate Change, Gender, and Security Risks in Sri Lanka

Oct 2, 2025 | UNDP
Newswire

The United Nations launched a landmark study on how climate change, gender and security in Sri Lanka are interconnected. Commissioned by the Joint UN Development…

Colombia: Victims of Colombian Conflict Given Land from Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Ranch

Oct 2, 2025 | James Reynolds

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’.

President Gustavo Petro…

Applying a National Security Lens to the International Court’s Climate Change Opinion

Oct 2, 2025 | Danielle Ireland-Piper

Climate change is widely recognised as a national security risk. Successive defence planning strategies have identified climate change as such. For example, the 2023 Defence…

Liberia: Liberia Awards Customary Land Deeds to Communities

Oct 2, 2025
Global News Network Liberia

The historic event marked the official recognition of land ownership for 23 communities that have completed the Confirmation Survey and Customary Land Formalization (CLF) process.…

Iraq: Iraq Activates Contract with BP to Develop Kirkuk Oilfields, Initial Target of 328,000 bpd

Oct 2, 2025
Asharq Al Awsat

Iraq has activated a contract with BP to develop Kirkuk oilfields, targeting preliminary production of 328,000 barrels per day, the country's oil minister said on…

Nigeria: Short Term Expert Consultant, GIZ PEACECORP II

Oct 1, 2025 | Corus International
Relief Web

About Corus: Corus International is the parent of a family of world-class social impact organizations that collaborate in the world's most vulnerable communities to deliver the…

Pills and Pollution: Captagon Production in Syria

Oct 1, 2025 | Leon Moreland

Captagon is the street name for fenethylline, a synthetic stimulant created by chemically bonding amphetamine, a powerful central nervous system stimulant, with theophylline, a drug…

Liberia: FAO Calls for Clearer Land and Forest Rights in Liberia

Oct 1, 2025 | Francis G. Boayue
FrontPage Africa

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening natural resource governance in Liberia, urging reforms to clarify…

The Nexus of Conflict, Mining, and Violence in Eastern DRC

Sep 30, 2025 | Ashley Nunes

After decades of bloodshed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Félix Tshisekedi recently demanded the country’s parliament and the international community recognize the…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Sep 30, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.…

Canada: Financial Controller

Sep 30, 2025 | IMPACT

IMPACT transforms how natural resources are managed in areas where security and human rights are at risk. We investigate and develop approaches for natural resources…

Ukraine: WASH/Shelter/NFI Coordinator

Sep 30, 2025 | Polish Humanitarian Action - Polska Akcja Humanitarna

Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) is an international non-governmental organization which since 1992 has been providing humanitarian and development help worldwide. So far, the interventions have…

Afghanistan: Climate Change and Environment Coordinator (Expatriate)

Sep 30, 2025 | Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees

DACAAR is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization that supports sustainable development in Afghanistan through promoting the ability of local communities to decide upon and manage their…

Afghanistan: Country Director

Sep 30, 2025 | Norwegian Church Aid

NCA has provided assistance to the Afghan population since 1979 and established an office in 1996. Our program focuses on integrated watershed management, linking sustainable…

DRC: Country Director

Sep 30, 2025 | 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…

Kenya: Program Assistant - Communications and Visibility (Level P1)

Sep 30, 2025 | African Union - InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources

The African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) is a specialized technical office of the Department Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment…

Kenya: Animal Production, Natural Resource Management & Resilience Expert (P3 Level)

Sep 30, 2025 | African Union - InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources

The African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) is a specialized technical office of the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable…

From Minerals to Influence: Resource-for-Security Deals Reshaping Power Dynamics in Africa

Sep 29, 2025 | Amandine Gnanguênon and Marius Kretzschmar

In response to shifting geopolitical dynamics and as a clear sign that governments are increasingly embedding minerals into their foreign policy, recent developments point to…

Trump’s Dip into the Nile Waters Dispute Didn’t Settle the Conflict — in Fact, It May Have Caused More Ripples

Sep 28, 2025 | Fred H. Lawson

Nile River water is essential to agriculture and public sanitation in both Egypt and Sudan. Distribution of that water has been regulated by an agreement…

Afghanistan: Stripped of Inheritance, Women in Afghanistan Are Denied Even Their Own Property

Sep 28, 2025 | Elina Qalam
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Women in Kabul say that the patriarchal structure of society has deprived them of their right to ownership. They explain that because of stereotypes and…

Israel’s Gecocide in Gaza Sends This Message: Even If We Stopped Dropping Bombs, You Couldn’t Live Here

Sep 27, 2025 | George Monbiot

A landless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Resumes Kurdish Oil Exports to Turkiye after Two-and-a-Half-Year Halt

Sep 27, 2025
Al Jazeera

Iraq has resumed crude oil exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to Turkiye after an interim deal broke a two-and-a-half-year deadlock over legal and technical…

Afghanistan: Did Restrictions on Women Workers Hamper Afghanistan’s Earthquake Response?

Sep 27, 2025 | Ruchi Kumar
Al Jazeera

In 2022, the Taliban government banned women from working in NGOs operating in the country. A year later, it also forbade Afghan women from working…

Trump’s Dip into the Nile Waters Dispute Didn’t Settle the Conflict – in Fact, It May Have Caused More Ripples

Sep 26, 2025 | Fred H. Lawson

Nile River water is essential to agriculture and public sanitation in both Egypt and Sudan. Distribution of that water has been regulated by an agreement…