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If Women Don’t Lead, We’ll Lose the Battle Against Climate Crisis

Jun 8, 2022 | Sally Abi Khalil

We are in the midst of so many crises across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: the most unequal, water scarce, least democratic…

Colombia: Colombia's Extractive Industries Watching Election Warily

Jun 8, 2022 | Oliver Griffin, Reuters

Colombia's leftist firebrand presidential candidate Gustavo Petro is too close in recent polls for the comfort of oil companies and miners who worry that his…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Pro-Iran Militias ‘Seizing Kurdish Oil Resources’

Jun 8, 2022 | GDNonline

Pro-Iranian militias have seized half of the Iraqi oil resources, at a time when disputes are raging between Baghdad and Erbil over who manages oil…

DRC: Irregularities Uncovered at State-Owned DRC Mining Company

Jun 8, 2022 | Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

The anti-corruption agency of the Democratic Republic of Congo has identified numerous irregularities in the management of the state-owned mining company, Gecamines, which it says…

Afghanistan: Taliban Extends Bidding Period for Large-Scale Metal Mines

Jun 7, 2022 | Asian News International

The Taliban on Tuesday extended the bidding period for the extraction of two large-scale metal mines in western provinces - Herat and Ghor. The Ministry…

DRC: Congo Ombudsman Says Millions Lost at State Mining Firm

Jun 6, 2022 | Africanews with AFP

The Democratic Republic of Congo's Inspectorate General of Finance (IGF), in a report revealed on Saturday, points to numerous irregularities in the management of the…

Lebanon: Lebanon Urges US Envoy to End Maritime Dispute with Israel

Jun 6, 2022 | Bassem Mroue, Associated Press

The Lebanese government invited on Monday a U.S. envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over their disputed maritime border to return to Beirut as soon…

Liberia: High-Level UN Peacebuilding Commission Delegation Arrives in Liberia

Jun 6, 2022 | Front Page Africa

Apply Now! Call for 7th Annual ‘Gender-Just Climate Solutions’ Award Open

Jun 6, 2022 | Women Gender Constituency

These awards showcase real solutions for a just, healthy and sustainable planet.

All types of activist, grassroots, women-led and gender equality organizations and groups working on…

DRC/Rwanda: Rwanda-DR Congo Row: Tensions Rise again in the Great Lakes

Jun 5, 2022 | Timothy Kalyegira, Monitor

Tensions erupted last week between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Demonstrations were held this week in the Congolese capital Kinshasa to protest Rwanda’s…

DRC: EAC Membership to Help DRC Benefit from Its Minerals

Jun 5, 2022 | Chimp Corps

At the end of May, 2022, Hon Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, led a delegation of Ugandan…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Kurdistan Judicial Council Defies Supreme Court over Oil Law

Jun 4, 2022 | Reuters

The judicial council of Iraq's Kurdistan said the region's oil law remained in force, rejected a ruling from the federal supreme court that Kurdish authorities…

Colombia: Colombia Court Orders Penalties for President, Cites National Park

Jun 4, 2022 | Reuters

A court in Colombia has ordered President Ivan Duque to be fined and placed under house arrest for five days, it said on Saturday, citing…

Navy’s Climate Strategy Aims to Build Resilience against Readiness Challenges

Jun 4, 2022 | Kylie Bielby

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have released their climate strategy, Climate Action 2030, setting the Department of the Navy on a path to achieve…

Colombia: IACHR Reveals Colombia's Failure to Provide Information on Members of the Public Force Investigated for Abuses

Jun 3, 2022 | Nick Quaz, The Gal Times

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published its 2021 Annual Report, a document that contains the human rights situation in the region and presents…

Iraq: 'It's a Mass Ecological Crisis': Extreme Weather in Iraq Hits Those Already Struggling the Hardest

Jun 3, 2022 | Yasmine Mosimann, The World

About a dozen dust storms have blown across Iraq this year. While these types of storms are a yearly occurrence in Iraq and neighboring countries,…

Ukraine: Troops Defend Utility Plants as Conflict in Ukraine Continues

Jun 3, 2022 | PA News Agency

As the fighting in eastern Ukraine inches forward, Russian attacks are knocking out power, water and gas to entire towns and cities and the utility…

In a Time of Competing Crises, Environmental Action Matters More Than Ever

Jun 3, 2022 | Richard Black, Cedric de Coning, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Hafsa Maalim, Melvis Ndiloseh, Dan Smith, and Caspar Trimmer

Last week saw the launch of SIPRI’s major policy report Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk, looking at how to manage the…

Here's How Environmental Democracy Can Help Peace in Latin America

Jun 3, 2022 | Antonia Urrejola

In the last few decades, Latin America and the Caribbean has faced significant challenges in its development, associated with the sustainable use of its natural…

Sustaining Shared Waters: An African Case Study

Jun 3, 2022 | Sarah Davidson

Transboundary governance of shared water resources is essential to meeting the world’s most pressing challenges. One globally significant transboundary region is the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation…

Central African Republic Wants to Tokenize Mineral Resources

Jun 3, 2022 | Ledger Insights

After the Central African Republic (CAR) adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in April, yesterday, its President Faustin-Archange Touadéra announced on Twitter that the country plans to use…

In a Time of Competing Crises, Environmental Action Matters More than Ever

Jun 3, 2022 | Richard Black, Cedric de Coning, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Hafsa Maalim, Melvis Ndiloseh, Dan Smith, Caspar Trimmer

Last week saw the launch of SIPRI’s major policy report Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk, looking at how to manage the…

Ukraine: The Environmental Casualties of War in Ukraine

Jun 2, 2022 | Amanda Solliday, Duke University

While the war in Ukraine disrupts lives immediately and violently, damage is also happening to the soil, air and water that make up the places Ukrainians call…

Somalia: President Mohamud: Somalia Severely Affected by Drought

Jun 2, 2022 | Abdulkadir Khalif, East African

Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has urged citizens to chip in and help those severely affected by drought in the country, especially internally displaced…

DRC: Suspension of Chinese Miner for Pollution in DRC Points to Wider Problem

Jun 1, 2022 | Immaculée Inamuco, Mongabay

In August 2021, local communities accused a Chinese gold-mining company of polluting a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeastern province of Tshopo. Residents…

Water Security: Vice President Harris Announces Action Plan on Global Water Security and Highlights the Administration’s Work to Build Drought Resilience

Jun 1, 2022 | The White House

More than two billion people today lack access to safely managed drinking water, and nearly half the world’s population lacks access to safely managed sanitation…