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Madagascar: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Lead
Nov 25, 2025
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SEED Madagascar
SEED Madagascar is a British Charity working in partnership with communities in southeast Madagascar. SEED integrates high quality community health, rural livelihoods, education infrastructure, water,…
South Sudan: Strengthening Resilience in Agriculture, Livelihoods and Markets Phase II (STREAM II)
Nov 25, 2025
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps has been operating in South Sudan since 2005. Since the country’s independence in 2011, Mercy Corps has remained committed to addressing urgent humanitarian…
Madagascar: Programme Officer - Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development
Nov 25, 2025
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SEED Madagascar
This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated development professional with 1-3 years’ experience to contribute to impactful agricultural and livelihoods work in one of…
USA: Kroc Institute Visiting Research Fellowship 2026-2027
Nov 25, 2025
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University of Notre Dame: Keough School of Global Affairs
Each year, the Kroc Institute's Visiting Research Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars focused on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester…
Iraq: Iraq Bets on Tourism to Reduce Oil Dependence
Nov 25, 2025
Xinhua
Iraq aims to raise cultural tourism revenue to 30 percent of its state budget to diversify an economy that currently relies on oil for 95…
Rwanda: Women at the Heart of TREPA’s Land Restoration in Rwanda’s Eastern Province
Nov 24, 2025
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Jean Claude Habimana
IUCN
In Rwanda’s Eastern Province, women and girls were limited to contributing to landscape restoration and environmental conservation, while men often took on roles such as…
DRC: Chinese-Owned Mining Firm Reports M23 Gold Looting, Forced Expulsions and Infrastructure Destruction in South Kivu
Nov 24, 2025
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Twangiza Mining said Monday that M23 rebels occupying its gold concession in the Democratic Republic of Congo have looted at least 500 kilogrammes of bullion…
Afghanistan: UNICEF: Prolonged Drought Depriving Families and Children of Safe Drinking Water
Nov 23, 2025
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that Afghanistan’s prolonged drought could deprive countless families and children of access to safe drinking water.
South Sudan: From Silence to Strength: Women Leaders Speak Out in South Sudan
Nov 22, 2025
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Amber Christino
UN News
She knows what it’s like to be silenced.
Born into a family that didn’t believe in educating girls, she had to stay home while her brothers…
Climate Change: Translating Climate, Peace, Security and Displacement Research into Policy and Action
Nov 21, 2025
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Ibukun Taiwo
CGIAR
Three years ago, the CGIAR Climate Security team of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT established the Southern Africa Regional Hub, based in Pretoria,…
Echoes in the Current: Water, Conflict, and the Elusive Hope for Environmental Peacebuilding in a Warming World
Nov 20, 2025
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Florian Krampe
A warming climate disrupts the global water cycle with an intensity that alters the very predictability of life. Climate change makes the availability of freshwater…
COP30 and the Climate-Security Paradox: Strategic Competition, Fragile States, and the Erosion of Collective Security
Nov 20, 2025
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The Soufan Center
The 30th United Nations climate conference (COP30) concludes tomorrow in Belém, Brazil, against a backdrop of increased global competition surrounding critical minerals, mounting climate-linked instability,…
Sudan: Contested Corridors: The Illicit Transnational Supply Chains Sustaining Sudan’s Conflict
Nov 20, 2025
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Ruben De Koning
Global Initiative
In late October 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary organization fighting for control of Sudan, captured the city of El Fasher, in Darfur,…
Sudan: Sudan Has Vast Oil, Gold and Agricultural Resources. Who Controls Them?
Nov 20, 2025
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Mohamed A. Hussein and Marium Ali
Al Jazeera
Sudan’s civil war, now in its third year, has pitted the army against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in a devastating struggle for power.
Ukraine/Russia: Ukraine Prepares First Environmental War Damage Claim in History against Russia for 237 Million Tons of CO2 Emissions
Nov 20, 2025
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Olena Mukhina
Euromaidan Press
The Ukrainian government plans to demand nearly $44 billion in compensation from Moscow for environmental damage caused by CO2 emissions and the destruction of nature, Reuters…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Relentless Drought: Farmers on the Brink of Bankruptcy and an Unprecedented Livelihood Crisis
Nov 20, 2025
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Avizha Khorshid
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
Farmers in Afghanistan are complaining about declining water levels and a worsening drought. They stress that water scarcity has caused an unprecedented drop in yields,…
Gender is the Key to a Healthy Planet and People: Reflections from the Biodiversity-Health Press Conference at SBSTTA-27
Nov 19, 2025
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Alejandra Duarte
Women4Biodiversity
Traditional health systems, rooted in centuries of empirical knowledge, reveal the interdependence between ecosystems and human health. However, women’s ecological and health-related knowledge has often…
How Water Scarcity Is Forging a New Era of Conflict
Nov 19, 2025
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Rao Farman Ali
The water crisis in Tehran, compelling Iranian authorities to warn about water rationing and evacuation of the country’s capital, may sound dystopian.
Sudan/South Sudan: South Sudan Resumes Oil Exports after Drone Attack in Neighboring Sudan
Nov 19, 2025
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Deng Machol
Associated Press
South Sudan has resumed transporting and exporting crude oil after drone attacks on two key oil installations in neighboring Sudan forced an emergency shutdown of…
Seeking Experts
Nov 19, 2025
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Dorsch Impact
Dorsch Impact is a German consulting company in the field of development cooperation. Dorsch Impact works in the areas of climate action, water resource management, sustainable…
Kenya: How Gender-transformative Innovation Bundles are Revolutionizing Food Security in Kenya
Nov 18, 2025
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Eileen Bogweh Nchanji
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT
In Makueni, Kenya, farmers are boosting yields and empowering women through new gender-transformative innovation bundles. Introduced to overcome low tech adoption, the approach merges farming…
Liberia: Women Marginalized in Customary Land Processes in Lofa Despite Legal Protections
Nov 17, 2025
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Korto D. Snowe
Liberia Daily Observer
Women in Lofa County continue to face difficulties participating equally in customary land and natural resource management. This situation, according to Chapter 9, Article 36…
Colombia: Community-Led Responses to Environmental Crime in Colombia
Nov 17, 2025
Global Initiative
In Colombia, and particularly in the Amazonian departments of Meta and Caquetá, campesino and rural communities are actively defending their forests.
Conflict Minerals: Diamond Industry Pushes to Rewrite the Rules on ‘Conflict Stones’
Nov 17, 2025
Sri Lanka Guardian
The diamond industry is calling for urgent reform of the Kimberley Process, the international pact created to eliminate trade in conflict diamonds, amid growing criticism…
DRC: In the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mining Revenue Is Helping to Fund Rebel Groups
Nov 16, 2025
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Simplice Bambe, Jean Sovon, and Jean-Christophe Brunet
GlobalVoices
The ongoing security crisis in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has deepened, with two rebel groups, the Congo River…
Conflict Minerals: Conflict Diamonds Regime a ‘Victim of Its Success’
Nov 16, 2025
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Tom Saunders
The Times
A regime designed to eliminate the trade in “conflict diamonds” has become a “victim of its own success”, the president of the World Diamond Council…
Sudan/South Sudan: Regional Oil Corridor Faces Major Disruption after Deadly Drone Strike in Sudan
Nov 16, 2025
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Brian Kiprono
Dawan Africa
Oil flows between Sudan and South Sudan have ground to a halt after a deadly drone strike on the Heglig Oil Field triggered cascading shutdowns…
Ukraine: Ukraine’s Agricultural Crisis: Nutrient Depletion Threatens Future Food Security and Global Supply Chains
Nov 16, 2025
SSBCrack News
For decades, Ukraine held the title of the world’s breadbasket, renowned for its substantial output of sunflower oil, maize, and wheat—products that sustained over 400…
South Sudan: South Sudan Oil Production Halted after Drone Attack on Key Facility
Nov 15, 2025
Radio Tamazuj
Oil production and exports have been suspended in parts of Sudan and South Sudan following a drone strike on a critical oil field in Sudan,…
Sudan/South Sudan/Abyei: UN Renews Peacekeeping Mission in Disputed Abyei Region
Nov 15, 2025
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha News
The UN Security Council on Friday renewed a peacekeeping mission in Abyei, a disputed oil-rich region between Sudan and South Sudan, but warned that future…