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Afghanistan: Intra-Taliban Clashes over Gold Mine in Badakhshan Leave 10 Dead

Oct 13, 2025
Afghanistan International

At least 10 Taliban members were killed in heavy fighting between rival factions of the group in Badakhshan province over control of a gold mine,…

Afghanistan: Kabul Faces a Water Crisis: Warnings of Land Subsidence and Threats to People’s Livelihoods

Oct 13, 2025 | Avizha Khorshid
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Residents in Kabul have voiced complaints about severe water shortages in the city. They say that the scarcity of clean water and its unpleasant taste…

Colombia: IOM and EU Launch Initiative to Strengthen Inclusive Disaster Preparedness in Latin America

Oct 13, 2025
International Organization for Migration

Bogotá, Colombia, 13 October 2025 – As climate-related disasters intensify across Latin America, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union have launched Prepárate+,…

Explainer: Why Gender Matters in Disaster Risk Reduction

Oct 13, 2025 | UN Women Europe and Central Asia
UN Women

Disasters are happening more often, costing more, and affecting more lives than ever before. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is not just reacting when a crisis…

Can Colombia Embrace Clean Energy without Damaging the Amazon?

Oct 13, 2025 | Christina Noriega

At the foot of the Andes, a Canadian firm has plans for one of the country’s biggest copper mines, but many say the carbon-rich forests…

Resource Curse: Why Capitalizing on the Resources Is Actually the Exception?

Oct 13, 2025 | Nadhem Mahmoudi

This phenomenon refers to the paradox of countries with vast natural or mineral resources who fail to translate those resources into economic prosperity. The resource…

Liberia: Community Seizes Loggers’ Equipment in Bassa

Oct 13, 2025 | Esau J. Farr
The Daylight

Local leaders in a Grand Bassa community forest have seized a logging company’s equipment for failing to pay their benefits.

Egypt/Ethiopia: Egypt's President Al-Sisi Issues Stern Warning to Ethiopia over Nile Dam Dispute, Vows to Protect Water Security

Oct 13, 2025
Radio Dalsan

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has issued a stark warning to Ethiopia, accusing it of causing "significant harm" to downstream nations through its management of…

Afghanistan/Pakistan: Afghanistan, Pakistan Say Their Forces Killed Dozens in Border Clashes

Oct 12, 2025
Agence France-Presse

Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Sunday they killed dozens of each other’s troops during a night of heavy border clashes between the two countries. Afghanistan’s…

Iraq: Iraq’s Oil Revenues Fall Short of Covering State Spending

Oct 11, 2025
Shafaq News

Iraq’s oil income no longer covers the government’s monthly expenses, the economic observatory ECO Iraq warned on Saturday, forecasting that Brent crude could drop to…

New Online Course: Conflict Sensitivity in Conservation

Oct 11, 2025
PeaceNexus Foundation, EnPAx, African Wildlife Foundation, Conservation International, Environmental Law Institute, International Institute for Sustainable Development, IUCN, CEESP, and WWF

Conservation doesn’t happen in isolation. In fact, conserving nature involves making decisions about who accesses and uses natural resources – decisions that can be particularly…

Iraq: Terms of Reference for Trainers & Experts in Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship

Oct 10, 2025 | STOOS Consulting

STOOS Consulting seeks Iraq-based trainers and technical experts to deliver hands-on, market-relevant training and coaching for women, youth, farmers, small businesses, VSLA groups, and TVET learners. Assignments will be delivered in…

South Sudan: Terms of Reference for Trainers & Experts in Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship

Oct 10, 2025 | STOOS Consulting

STOOS Consulting is recruiting South Sudan-based trainers and facilitators to deliver practical, context-appropriate training and coaching for women, youth, farmers, VSLAs, and MSMEs, with a focus on remote/rural access and fragile settings.

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Sudan: Terms of Reference for Trainers & Experts in Livelihoods, Economic Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship

Oct 10, 2025 | STOOS Consulting

STOOS Consulting seeks Sudan-based trainers and experts to deliver TVET, entrepreneurship, agriculture/livestock, VSLA, financial literacy, and market systems training that strengthens resilience and self-reliance for women, youth, farmers, and micro-enterprises.

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Iraq: Iraq’s 2025 Gas Pivot: Can Baghdad Turn Flares into Fuel?

Oct 10, 2025
Shafaq News

Iraq has moved aggressively in 2025 to overhaul its gas sector—pushing capture projects, sealing multi-billion-dollar partnerships, and tying the effort to electricity security and an…

Liberia: A Cacao Rush Drives ‘Alarming’ Deforestation in Liberia

Oct 10, 2025 | Ashoka Mukpo
Mongabay

A rush to plant cacao in southeastern Liberia is destroying large tracts of rainforest. According to satellite data as well as interviews with local environmental…

Afghanistan: Afghan Farmers Battle Drought amid Fragile Peace

Oct 8, 2025
Xinhua

In the sturdy stillness of Wardak Province, just 35 km west of Kabul, an unrelenting specter has replaced the echoes of two decades of war.…

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Environmental Peacebuilding Awards (Deadline: 30 November 2025)

Oct 8, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to present awards to leaders, practitioners, and researchers from our community.The Environmental…

Liberia: Unmasking Waste and Abuse of Forest Resources in Liberia: The Case of Abandoned Logs

Oct 6, 2025 | Junior B. Kesselee
FrontPage Africa

In the deep rainforests of Liberia, thousands of felled logs lie rotting in company’s yards, swamps, and roadside fields—harvested but never exported, valued but never…

Iraq: Iraq’s Vote Pits Oil Wealth against Superpower Rivalry

Oct 6, 2025 | Simon Watkins
Oilprice.com

Iraq’s 11 November parliamentary elections could mark the key turning point in the country’s history since the ousting of former president Saddam Hussein in April…

Sudan/South Sudan: Juba, Port Sudan Agree to Protect Oil Facilities, Pipeline Stations

Oct 6, 2025
Xinhua

Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to protect oil facilities and the central stations of the pipelines transporting Juba's oil to Port Sudan on the…

Liberia: Supreme Court Revives Liberia’s $11.5 Million Diamond Scandal, Sending Ex-Weah Officials back to Civil Court

Oct 6, 2025 | Amos Harris
Global News Network Liberia

The mystery surrounding Liberia’s controversial 53.34-carat diamond, valued at over $11.5 million, has dramatically resurfaced at the Temple of Justice. The Supreme Court has instructed…

Colombia: Petro’s Agrarian Reform Drives Surge in Colombia’s Food Production

Oct 6, 2025 | Josep Freixes
Colombia One

The agrarian reform implemented by the government of President Gustavo Petro has boosted food production in Colombia, where agriculture remains an important part of the…

Afghanistan/Iran: Taliban Express Readiness to Settle Water Dispute with Iran

Oct 5, 2025
Afghanistan International

Iranian media reported that Taliban officials have expressed readiness to resolve the long-standing water rights dispute with Iran during a meeting with the acting head…

Afghanistan: Energy Conservation: The Key to Lifting Afghanistan out of Darkness and Poverty

Oct 5, 2025 | Kazim Homayoun
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

In today’s Afghanistan, energy conservation is not merely an environmental slogan; it is an economic, social, and security necessity. A country that imports most of…

Egypt/Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Egypt Trade Accusations over GERD’s Role in Nile Floods

Oct 4, 2025
Sudan Tribune

Ethiopia and Egypt have exchanged sharp accusations over the management of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), with each country blaming the other for recent…

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…