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Iraq: Hospitals in Basra Inundated with Cases Linked to Dirty Water
Aug 29, 2018
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Suadad Al-Salhy, Arab News
Hospitals in Basra have been flooded with thousands of patients suffering from drinking polluted and saline water as the province reels from the latest breakdown…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad Doesn’t Have Oil for Its Own Needs, Let Alone Kurdish Provinces: Official
Aug 29, 2018
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Rudaw
Baghdad has not agreed to send gasoline and diesel to the Kurdistan Region, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said on Wednesday, saying there is not…
Iraq: Basra Health Crisis: 17,000 Admitted to Hospitals for Water Poisoning
Aug 29, 2018
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Mina Aldroubi, The National
Basra's health authorities said on Wednesday that more than 17,000 people have been admitted to hospitals over illnesses contracted from polluted drinking water. There has…
Afghanistan/Iran: Negotiating Hamoun Water Right, Only Way for Sistan to Survive: Report
Aug 29, 2018
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Tehran Times
The Hamouns are transboundary wetlands on the Iran-Afghan border made up of three lakes: Hamoun-e Helmand, which is entirely in Iran, Hamoun-e Sabari on the…
Destabilising Nature of Internal Water Wars
Aug 28, 2018
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Scott Moore
Nearly 15 years ago, the former head of India’s Central Water Commission warned that “hydro-politics is threatening the very fabric of federalism” in the world’s…
Time to Focus on Water Management in Arab World as Source of Growth and Stability
Aug 28, 2018
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Anders Jagerskog
In Gaza, the drinking water tastes like seawater. Years of neglect and poor management, due in large part to recurring conflicts, has led to the…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pakistan to Engage Afghanistan for Signing Water Treaty
Aug 28, 2018
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The Nation
The government of Pakistan is continuously trying to engage the government of Afghanistan into dialogue for a possible water treaty in future or at least to…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Pak Initiates Talks on Water Treaty with Afghanistan
Aug 28, 2018
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Independent News Pakistan
The government of Pakistan (GoP) is trying to engage the Afghan government in dialogue for a possible water treaty and to develop some mechanism for information sharing between…
Saleem Ali
Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment
University of Delaware
United States
Aug 28, 2018
Saleem Ali is Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware, focusing on issues of environmental conflict resolution,…
Myanmar: Sustainable Forest Management & REDD+
Aug 27, 2018
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GITEC Consulting
GITEC-IGIP Holding SE with the two managing companies GITEC-IGIP GmbH and IGIP mbH is a leading consulting company for development aid projects. For over five…
Myanmar: Integrated Water Resources Management Specialist
Aug 27, 2018
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GITEC Consulting
GITEC-IGIP Holding SE with the two managing companies GITEC-IGIP GmbH and IGIP mbH is a leading consulting company for development aid projects. For over five…
Sudan: Natural Resource Manager
Aug 27, 2018
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Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Sudan Program is finalizing a proposal for United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) grant for resilience programming in Darfur, with…
Egypt: Environment and Climate Officer
Aug 27, 2018
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International Fund for Agricultural Development
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger.…
Climate Change Analyst
Aug 27, 2018
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CAMRIS International
CAMRIS International is among the top 20 USAID contractors for the third year in a row. CAMRIS realizes innovative solutions to health and development challenges…
Nepal: Nutrition Consultant, Nutrition and Emergencies
Aug 27, 2018
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UN Children's Fund
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To…
Environmental Peacebuilding Association Engages the Environmental Law Institute to Serve as the Secretariat
Aug 27, 2018
The Board of Directors of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to announce that the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) will serve as the first host for…
Liberia: Liberia Set to Secure Ancestral Land Rights with Long-Awaited Law
Aug 27, 2018
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Nellie Peyton, Reuters
Liberia is on the verge of passing a long-awaited land rights law that would help prevent foreign companies uprooting communities to make way for mining…
Iraq: 'Iraq Is Dying': Oil Flows Freely but Corruption Fuels Growing Anger
Aug 27, 2018
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Guardian
The land of the Bani-Mansour clan north-east of Basra is flat and parched, spattered with dry crusts of salt and thorny shrubs. Clusters of palm…
Liberia: Land Rights Act Passed
Aug 27, 2018
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J. Burgess Carter, Observer
Following years of open hearings, debates, committee reports, and conference committee work, the Senate at its 54th day sitting last Thursday, unanimously voted to concur…
Iraq: Iraq Restores Part of Largest Oil Refinery after 4-Year Hiatus
Aug 27, 2018
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Xinhua
Iraq has rehabilitated part of its largest oil refinery located in Baiji of the country's central province of Salahudin after it was sabotaged in fierce…
Iraq: Oil-Rich Basra Threatens Vote to Pull Away from Iraq
Aug 27, 2018
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Gilgamesh Nabeel and Tamara Emad, Washington Times
Protesters poured into the streets and picketed oil fields in southern Iraq amid growing discontent over the government’s failure to combat unemployment, provide drinkable water…
Myanmar: Over 13,000 Tonnes of Illegal Timber Seized in Four Months
Aug 27, 2018
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Hsan Htoo Aung, Eleven
From April to July of this fiscal year, the government could seize 13183.2095 tonnes of illegal timber, according to the figures released by Forest Department.…
South Sudan: South Sudan Resumes Pumping 20,000 bpd from Oil Field Suspended Since 2013 - Sudan
Aug 26, 2018
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Reuters
South Sudan has resumed pumping 20,000 bpd of crude from Toma South oil field, where production had been suspended since 2013, the Sudanese oil minister…
Myanmar: Myanmar Returns Confiscated Land to Farmers in Central Region
Aug 26, 2018
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Xinhua
The Myanmar government has returned over 481.92 acres (195 hectares) of farmland confiscated by the Ministry of Defense to 123 farmers in Toungoo, Bago region,…
Liberia: Senate Passes Land Rights Act
Aug 25, 2018
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Ida Reeves, Bush Chicken
The Liberian Senate has finally concurred with the House of Representatives to pass the Land Rights Act. If signed into law by President George Weah,…
Iraq: Iraqi Protest against Unsafe Water in Basra [Video]
Aug 25, 2018
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Osama Bin Javaid, Al Jazeera
People have been protesting in the Iraqi city of Basra after hundreds fell ill after drinking contaminated water. Iraq's government is investigating what caused this…
South Sudan: Production to Restart at South Sudan Oilfields
Aug 25, 2018
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Africa Oil & Power
Intensive preparations for oil production resumption will culminate on August 25 at Toma South, South Sudan, with the relaunch of production from blocks 1, 2…
Land: Rise of Agri-Cartel: Control of Land Drives Human Rights Violations, Environmental Destruction
Aug 24, 2018
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Sonya Swink, Globe Post
Control of land for crops that sustain the world’s largest food businesses, such as Ferrero and Nestle, is the driving force behind the destruction of…
Call for Applications: 2018 GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security
Aug 23, 2018
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Geneva Centre for Security Policy
The Geneva Center For Security Policy (GCSP) and its Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme are now accepting applications for the 2018 GCSP Prize for Innovation…
Myanmar: Water Project Offers Hope to Farmers in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone
Aug 23, 2018
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Evan Erickson, Mizzima
While the Dry Zone farmers of today are using techniques and working alongside irrigation schemes that are ancient in origin, the historical and climatic contexts…