International
Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Mines under Taliban Contracts: Short-Term Revenues, Long-Term Costs
Sep 4, 2025
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Kazim Homayoun
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, the group’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has signed more than 205 mining contracts with domestic…
Afghanistan: UN Says Quake-Hit Areas in Afghanistan Contaminated by Explosive Ordnance
Sep 4, 2025
KabulNow
The United Nations has warned that parts of eastern Afghanistan hit by last week’s deadly earthquake remain contaminated with explosive ordnance, further complicating rescue and…
Syria: Severe Drought Threatens Food Security across the Middle East, Devastating Syria’s Fragile Recovery
Sep 4, 2025
Kurdistan24
A historic drought gripping Syria and the broader Eastern Mediterranean is decimating crops, draining rivers and reservoirs, and intensifying food insecurity, threatening millions in a…
China/Taiwan: Taiwan Accuses China of Breaching International Law over Drilling
Sep 4, 2025
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Helen Davidson
Guardian
Taiwan’s government has accused China of breaching international law by drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and immediately demanded it…
Iran: Iran's Water Crisis: A Nexus of Environmental, Political, and Security Challenges
Sep 4, 2025
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Fatemeh Aman
Future Center
Iran grapples with a water crisis that has evolved from an environmental challenge into a political emergency. The situation unfolds against a backdrop of mounting…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Fights Opium Poppy Cultivation [Video]
Sep 3, 2025
NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Afghanistan's poppies account for an estimated 80 percent of the world's opium. The Taliban have banned cultivation, but its efforts to eradicate the crop face…
Afghanistan/Tajikistan: The Tajikistan–Afghanistan Border Clash Alarmed Regional Security
Sep 3, 2025
SpecialEurasia
A firefight broke out on August 24, 2025, between Tajik border troops and Taliban forces near the Panj River in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, across from…
Sherri Goodman named Distinguished Fellow at Atlantic Council
Sep 3, 2025
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Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council announced today that Sherri Goodman has been named a distinguished fellow with both the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security —through its…
Water: TRENDS Conference Focuses on Water as a Critical Component of Peace and Development
Sep 3, 2025
TRENDS
On the first day of TRENDS Research & Advisory’s Fifth Conference on Sustainable Water Security, three main sessions discussed the challenges and opportunities related to…
Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Sudan, Egypt Reject Wider Nile Basin Role in Ethiopia Dam Dispute
Sep 3, 2025
Sudan Tribune
Sudan and Egypt on Wednesday rejected attempts to include other Nile Basin countries in their long-running dispute with Ethiopia over its massive dam on the…
Empowering Women Key to Easing Stress Amid War in Ukraine: UN Women
Sep 3, 2025
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Nathalie Minard
UN News
Nearly four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and 11 years since conflict began, the toll on people’s mental health is severe.
Women and girls…
Afghanistan: Women Mushroom Farmers in Kabul Seek Cold Storages
Sep 2, 2025
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Sonita Azizi
Pajhwok Afghan News
A number of women in Kabul, working with diligent hands and hopeful hearts to cultivate mushrooms using straw, lime and bran, say they need cold…
Afghanistan: Afghan Activists Urge UN to Halt Hazara Displacement and Land Seizures
Sep 1, 2025
ShiaWaves
Over 100 Afghan civil society groups and human rights activists have called on the United Nations to intervene urgently to stop the systematic displacement and…
Bangladsesh: Govt. Prioritizes Swift Compensation for Victims of Human-Elephant Conflict: Rizwana
Sep 1, 2025
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan today reaffirmed the government's commitment to promoting peaceful human-elephant coexistence, saying that streamlining and revising current…
Afghanistan: Eastern Afghanistan Earthquakes Threaten Livestock Farming and Family Income Sources
Sep 1, 2025
Hasht-E Subh
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that the devastating earthquakes in eastern Afghanistan severely threaten the livestock sector.
Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Chinese Gold Mining Provokes Battle between Taliban and Tajikistan
Sep 1, 2025
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Dmytro Shumlianskyi
MILITARNYI
The first military clash in three years between Tajik border guards and TDF militants took place on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The clash…
AU Seeks Women’s Hand in Bringing Peace to Sudan, Sahel, Horn of Africa
Aug 31, 2025
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Dotto Lameck
Daily News
IN strengthening the African Union’s efforts to advance the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda across the continent, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission…
Sudan/South Sudan: Sudan Orders Oil Shutdown; South Sudan Exports at Risk
Aug 31, 2025
Radio Tamazuj
Sudan’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has ordered an emergency shutdown of oil facilities in the Heglig area near the border with South Sudan following…
Myanmar: Myanmar Rare Earth Mines Surge in Rebel-Held Areas, Fuelling Toxic Risks
Aug 30, 2025
Nation
When it comes to rare earths, the world almost instinctively looks to China. The country is not only the global leader in rare earth processing,…
Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Armed Clash Erupts between Afghanistan and Tajikistan over Border Dispute and Mining Activities
Aug 30, 2025
AKIpress News Agency
An armed conflict occurred on August 24 in the Dawang border area of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province between Taliban forces and Tajikistan. One Taliban fighter was…
Liberia: Liberian Communities Await Justice at Salala Rubber Plantation after World Bank Complaint
Aug 29, 2025
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Victoria Schneider
Mongabay
Five months after the World Bank’s private investment arm submitted its action plan to address community grievances against a rubber plantation it funds in Liberia,…
Afghanistan/China: Contract Breach or Banditry? Inside the Collapse of the Taliban's Oil Deal with China
Aug 29, 2025
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Anthony Kuhn and Vincent Ni
NPR
Turbaned Afghan officials and hard-hatted Chinese engineers gathered in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province in 2023 to mark the opening of Chinese-invested oil fields. The fields are…
Afghanistan: Foreign Investors Invited to Invest in Afghanistan's Mining Sector
Aug 28, 2025
TOLOnews
In a speech at Tatarstan's Oil and Gas Industrial Forum, Minister of Mines and Petroleum Hedayatullah Badri highlighted Afghanistan's vast oil and gas reserves and…
Myanmar: Over 1,300 Protected Forests across Myanmar Require Legal Protection
Aug 26, 2025
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Htet Nadi and Thet Paing
NP News
Myanmar has established and designated 1,328 reserved and protected forests as of July 31, 2025, according to data provided to The Statesman by the Forest…
Colombia: SIPRI Co-Hosts Policy Events on Climate Justice in Colombia
Aug 26, 2025
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
On 13–14 August 2025, SIPRI co-hosted a series of meetings in Bogotá, Colombia. The events brought together Colombian policymakers, regional specialists and civil society groups.…
Myanmar: Myanmar Junta Recaptures Mandalay Gold Mine
Aug 26, 2025
Irrawaddy
The military regime has taken back control of the sprawling Phayaung Taung gold mine on the border of Madaya, Patheingyi, and Pyin Oo Lwin townships…
Israel/Lebanon: 'When Bombs Turn Taps off': Israel Wrecks Lebanon's Water Systems Despite Ceasefire
Aug 26, 2025
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Sarah Khalil
New Arab
Six months after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was meant to halt fighting in Lebanon, violations persist, and hundreds of thousands of civilians remain…
Israel/Syria: Damascus Is Running out of Water. The Culprit? Climate Change, Conflict...and Israeli Land Grabs
Aug 26, 2025
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Youssef Al Ibrahim
New Arab
For the first time in half a century, Damascus and its surrounding countryside are experiencing an unprecedented water shortage that has forced authorities to implement…
Afghanistan: Taliban Announce Confiscation of Vast Tracts of Land in Logar
Aug 25, 2025
Afghanistan International
The Taliban say they have confiscated more than 1,400 acres of land in Logar province, classifying it as state property. The Taliban have established the…
Somalia: Seeds of Recovery: Somali-Led Solutions at a Turning Point
Aug 25, 2025
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Claudia McGoldrick
International Organization for Migration
For decades, Somalia has been defined by crisis – conflict, drought, floods, displacement, and insecurity. But today, across this complex, proud, and resilient country, a…