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Leaving No One Behind at COP27
Oct 31, 2022
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Jenny Grönwall, Xanani Baloyi, and Georgette Mrakadeh-Keane
As COP27 fast approaches a slew of reports highlight how much work is yet to be done to meet the goal of reducing projected warming…
Iraq: For Water-Stressed Iraq, Wells Threaten Race to the Bottom
Oct 30, 2022
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Agence France-Presse
Iraq has long drilled the desert for oil, but now climate stress, drought and reduced river flows are forcing it to dig ever deeper for…
Colombia: Colombian Govt. Hands over Farm Belonging to Former Paramilitary Leader
Oct 30, 2022
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teleSUR
The Colombian Government has handed over to fifty peasant families, victims of the armed conflict, the Támesis farm, which had been occupied by Carlos Castaño,…
Iraq: Twilight of The Tigris: Iraq's Mighty River Drying up
Oct 30, 2022
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Aymen Henna, Agence France-Presse
It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. But today the…
Liberia: Swiss Firm Says FDA Lied in Defending Illegal Permits
Oct 29, 2022
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Emmanuel Sherman, The Daylight
The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) lied that its Swiss contractor had declined to register logs from a plantation in Nimba County, which led it to…
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Suspends Participation in Deal on Ukraine Grain Exports – as It Happened
Oct 29, 2022
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Joanna Walters, Nadeem Badshah, Sarah Haque, and Geneva Abdul, Guardian
The Russian government has written to the United Nations telling the international body that “starting today” it is suspending for an “indefinite term” the Black…
Ghana: First Fully Traceable Mineral Extracted in Ghana
Oct 28, 2022
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Mining Review Africa
For the first time in Ghana’s mining history, Minexx, in collaboration with Solidaridad, a civil society organisation, has successfully exported 11.62 grams of gold fully…
Colombia: Colombians Are Occupying Land to Protest Inequality. Here’s the History.
Oct 28, 2022
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Laura García-Montoya and Isabel Güiza-Gómez, Washington Post
In Colombia, Indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant groups have escalated land occupations in recent months, seeking to ensure the government carries out long-standing land redistribution promises.…
East Africa: Droughts Don't Need to Result in Famine - Ethiopia and Somalia Show What Makes the Difference
Oct 27, 2022
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Joshua Busby
The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 40 years. Scientists suspect that a multi-year La Niña cycle has been amplified by climate change to prolong dry…
Ukraine: Energy Crisis Sparked by Ukraine War to Speed up Green Transition - IEA
Oct 26, 2022
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Noah Browning, Reuters
The drop in Russian fossil fuel exports after its Ukraine invasion this year will transform the global energy landscape for decades and can help to…
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Accused of Sabotaging Ukraine Water Pipe to Mykolaiv
Oct 26, 2022
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Viktoriia Zhuhan and Nader Ibrahim, BBC News
For six months, homes in Ukraine's southern coastal city of Mykolaiv have been without clean drinking water. Military and UN experts have told a BBC…
Myanmar: Myanmar Junta Now Stripping Rohingyas of Land Ownership
Oct 26, 2022
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Dhaka Tribune
In what can be dubbed as the latest nail in the coffin of Rohingya's existence in the Rakhine state, the Myanmar junta has officially started…
Afghanistan: Clash over Land Claims 4 Lives, Wounds 3 in Afghan Province
Oct 25, 2022
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Xinhua
A clash between two families over the ownership of a farmland in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province claimed the lives of four persons and injured three…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad Court Annuls Three More KRG Contracts
Oct 25, 2022
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Iraq Oil Report
A court in Baghdad has invalidated three more of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) oil contracts, marking a further escalation in the federal government's campaign…
Climate Change: How Cultivation, Climate Change and Conflict Have Changed the Origin of Your Potato Crisps: Study
Oct 25, 2022
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Gill Hyslop , BakeryandSnacks
Agriculture is the backbone of the world’s economic activity (accounting for 4.3% of GDP, with a value of $3.6 trillion in 2020) and critical for…
Will Africa's Metals Boom Suffer the Same Curse as Oil?
Oct 25, 2022
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Agence France-Presse
Mechanical diggers are hard at work in the bleak landscape of the Moanda open-cast mine in Gabon, using giant jaws to rip out manganese and…
Liberia: 22 Affected Communities File Historic Petition for Declaratory Judgment against Salala Rubber Corporation and the Liberian Government
Oct 24, 2022
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FrontPage Africa
Residents of 22 indigenous Kpelle communities, dispossessed of their customary land, cultural sites, and livelihoods, have filed a groundbreaking legal action against the Salala Rubber…
Somalia: Drought in Somalia: The Race to Save Lives as the Climate Crisis and Conflict Drive Hunger
Oct 24, 2022
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Peyvand Khorsandi, World Food Programme
WFP is in a race against time to save lives, with famine projected in Baidoa and Burhakaba, in the country’s Bay region, in coming months…
Afghanistan: Conflict and Drought-Affected People in Herat Provided with Humanitarian WASH Needs
Oct 24, 2022
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Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees
Recent conflicts in Afghanistan and in the meantime prolonged drought mostly in the north and western regions have forced many people to leave their homes…
Afghanistan: Agriculture Industry Complains of Lack of Markets
Oct 23, 2022
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TOLOnews
Participants in the 27th autumn exhibition of agriculture products expressed frustration over lack of sufficient markets for their products. They called on the Islamic Emirate…
Bhutan: Protected Farming to Fight Human-Wildlife-Conflict
Oct 22, 2022
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Kuensel
Pema Letro and his wife Tshering Zangmo’s house at Jigmeling, Gelephu is located on the way that elephants use to cross. With increasing conflicts with…
UN Deputy Chief Calls For Promoting Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding
Oct 21, 2022
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Mangalorean
United Nations: The international community should step up efforts to promote women’s participation in conflict-prevention and peacebuilding, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said.
DRC: Congo Improves Extractive Sector Transparency but More Needed – Anti-Graft Body
Oct 21, 2022
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Reuters
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has made progress in implementing transparency in its extractive mining sector but needs to do more in publishing contracts…
South Sudan: Devastation in South Sudan Following Fourth Year of Historic Floods
Oct 21, 2022
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging international support for humanitarian efforts in South Sudan in the face of record-breaking rains and floods for a…
Afghanistan: Afghan Farmers Resorting to Poppy Cultivation for Survival
Oct 21, 2022
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Asian News International
Amid severe economic crisis in Afghanistan, millions of destitute Afghan farmers and labourers have turned to the cultivation of opium poppies, the Office of the…
Climate Change: Refugees Flee Conflict Sparked by Climate Change in Central Africa
Oct 21, 2022
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Willem Marx, PBS
The climate crisis is now a reality worldwide, but it's nowhere more apparent than the parched landscapes of northern Africa. Thousands are on the move…
Information Challenges for Humanitarian Response to Climate Shocks in Fragile Settings
Oct 21, 2022
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Anniek Barnhoorn and Karen Meijer
As climate change intensifies, humanitarian organizations and their field operations will need a better understanding of how it interacts with conflict and displacement dynamics, as…
Fragility, Climate Change, and the Uncertain Lives of Agro-Pastoralist Women and Girls in East Africa
Oct 20, 2022
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Holly A. Ritchie, Open Global Rights
Aside from the political and social pressures that agro-pastoralist women and girls face, now they must add an urgent one: climate change.
Colombia: In Colombia, a New President Faces Old Environmental Challenges
Oct 20, 2022
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David Tarazona, Mongabay
Forest loss is just one of the many issues highlighted by experts, environmental organizations and former officials interviewed for this article, which analyzes the challenges…
Colombia: Colombia’s Coca Crops Grew to ‘Historic Levels’ Last Year: UN
Oct 20, 2022
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Al Jazeera
Colombian lands planted with coca, the plant from which cocaine is made, reached their highest levels in two decades last year, a United Nations agency…