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Liberia: Judge Warns against Rising Land Disputes

Sep 16, 2025 | Abednego Davis
Observer

Judge Boima Kontoe of the Civil Law Court raised concerns about the increasing conflicts over land in Liberia and called for the urgent need to…

Sudan: Anchors of Hope: Women Driving Recovery and Resilience

Sep 15, 2025 | UN Sudan
UN Sudan

The Sudan’s conflict, which erupted in April 2023, has created one of the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian crises. Today, an estimated 30.4 million people need assistance…

Conflict Minerals: Critical Minerals Contribute to Instability in Africa

Sep 15, 2025 | Jean-Michel Bos and Ana Munoz Padros
Deutsche Welle

Coveted for their use in environmentally oriented infrastructure and other emerging technologies, critical minerals are mined in 31 of the 54 countries on the African…

Sudan: Sudan Bans Private Gold Exports, Central Bank to Be Sole Buyer

Sep 15, 2025
Sudan Tribune

Sudan’s central bank on Monday banned all private gold exports, announcing it would become the sole legal buyer and exporter of the precious metal in…

Iran: Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Faces Irreversible Collapse as Hamoun Wetlands Dry up

Sep 15, 2025
Iran International

Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province is grappling with a worsening environmental crisis as drought and intensifying dust storms devastate the Hamoun wetlands, with experts warning of farmland…

Call for Proposals: Environmental Peacebuilding Panel at the 2026 NERPS Conference in Tokyo (Deadline: October 6, 2025)

Sep 15, 2025

Tobias Ide and Aleksandra Balinskaia will organise a panel on environmental peacebuilding at the 5th Conference of the Network for Education and Research on Peace and…

Syria: Syria's Silent War: How a Devastating Drought Threatens Post-Conflict Recovery

Sep 14, 2025 | Deepika Matange
The Week

Water scarcity, crop failure, and food insecurity, the three persistent pressures that were once a salient contributing factor to Syria’s social unrest-turned-civil war, are now…

Climate Change: Greenpeace: Climate Change Driving Migration, Hunger, and Global Conflict

Sep 14, 2025
ShiaWaves

Greenpeace has warned in a new report that climate change is now a leading driver of migration, food insecurity, and conflict in some of the…

DRC/Rwanda: DRC-Rwanda Draft Deal Outlines Role of US, Others in Revamp of Minerals Sector

Sep 14, 2025 | Sonia Rolley and Daphne Psaledakis
Reuters

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo will commit to working with third parties, including the US, to revamp their mineral supply chains and develop…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Is Losing More Than $11 Million Every Day as Baghdad Blocks Kurdistan Oil Exports

Sep 13, 2025
Kurdistan24

Iraq is losing more than $11 million every single day due to the continued suspension of oil exports from the Kurdistan Region, according to the…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Who Owns the Nile? Water, Power and Politics in a Warming World

Sep 13, 2025
Radio France Internationale

As climate change intensifies competition over water resources, the River Nile has become a symbol of both development and dispute. RFI speaks to a climate…

Call for Submissions: Path to Ottawa Initiatives

Sep 13, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

In the lead-up to the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding–taking place in June 2026 in Ottawa, Canada–the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and Conference partners are…

Call for Contributions: Visual Story Gallery (A Path to Ottawa Initiative)

Sep 13, 2025
Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace

As part of the Path to Ottawa Initiatives, the Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP) is pulling together a visual "Story…

Introducing War on Climate, a New Series That Explores How Conflict Interacts with Environmental Issues around the Globe

Sep 11, 2025 | Sam Phelps

The world is the most violent it has been in decades. A report by the Peace Research Institute Oslo recorded 61 conflicts across 36 countries…

Afghanistan/Tajikistan/Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan: Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal and the Paradox of Central Asian Water Politics

Sep 11, 2025 | Kamila Fayzieva
Diplomat

As climate change accelerates and water resources in Central Asia continue to shrink, the construction of the massive Qosh Tepa Canal in northern Afghanistan is…

Sudan/South Sudan: Abyei Authorities Disseminate Land Act Ahead of Demarcation

Sep 11, 2025
Radio Tamazuj

The Ministry of Information and Communication in Abyei Administrative Area over the weekend launched a two-day program to disseminate the South Sudan Land Act 2009…

Women, Peace and Security Champion Profile: Network of Civic Women for Peace, Thailand

Sep 11, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Based in Pattani, in Thailand’s Deep South, the Network of Civic Women for Peace (Civic Women) is an inspiring community-based women’s empowerment organization that has…

Kenya: Feasibility Study

Sep 11, 2025 | Sign of Hope

Sign of Hope (SoH) is a Christian motivated organisation for Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance and Development Cooperation. From its base in Constance, Germany, SoH is…

South Sudan: Manager of Programme Quality

Sep 11, 2025 | ZOA

ZOA supports people who have lost everything due to armed conflict or natural disaster. With 900 employees and (local) partners ZOA is active in Africa, South…

Syria: External Evaluation – Solarizing & Rehabilitating Water Systems

Sep 11, 2025 | Solidarités International

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

Sudan: Emergency Program Manager - Zalengei

Sep 11, 2025 | Solidarités International

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

DRC: Experte ou Expert Plaidoyer

Sep 11, 2025 | Action Contre la Faim France

Créée en 1979, Action contre la Faim est une organisation non gouvernementale internationale qui lutte contre la faim dans le monde. Sa charte des principes…

South Sudan: Program Manager - Malakal-Ulang

Sep 11, 2025 | Solidarités International

The Program Manager (PM) is responsible for launching and leading Solidarités International's (SI) response in the Sobat area, with an initial focus on Ulang and…

Ukraine: Disaster Management Delegate (m/f/d)

Sep 11, 2025 | German Red Cross

The German Red Cross (GRC) International Cooperation is dedicated to alleviating human suffering. True to the mandate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent…

Ukraine: Technical Experts (VERITAS UKR)

Sep 11, 2025 | SoCha LLC

SoCha is an international monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) firm that delivers evidence-driven insights to help development and humanitarian actors make adaptive, impactful decisions. We…

Liberia: EU Envoy Warns of Sahel Crises Consequences in Liberia

Sep 10, 2025 | William Q. Harmon
Observer

The European Union’s Special Representative for the Sahel has warned that the ongoing crises in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger pose far-reaching security and migration…

Liberia: EU Envoy Warns Liberia's Cocoa, Timber Exports at Risk over Deforestation, Burkinabè Influx

Sep 10, 2025 | Lennart Dodoo
Liberian Investigator

The European Union's head of delegation to Liberia has warned that the country's credibility as a cocoa exporter could be undermined if production continues to…

Kenya/South Sudan/Uganda: How Kenya, Uganda Profit from South Sudan’s Illegal Gold and Charcoal Trade

Sep 10, 2025 | James Anyanzwa
Nation

As South Sudan grapples with a deepening economic collapse driven by years of civil war and plummeting oil revenues, a shadow economy is thriving—one that…

Afghanistan: Dispute over Land Ownership Claims 2 Lives in E. Afghanistan

Sep 10, 2025
Xinhua

A Dispute over a piece of land between two brothers in the eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province has claimed two lives, provincial police spokesman Sayed Tayeb…

Colombia: Mennonites in Colombia to Repair Environmental Damage

Sep 10, 2025 | Josep Freixes
ColombiaOne

The Mennonite community that has lived for nine years in the Meta region of Colombia expressed its willingness to repair the environmental damage caused by…