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Uganda: Country Director

Jan 15, 2018 | Oxfam

Oxfam works with local stakeholders to find lasting solutions to the root causes which keep people in poverty. Oxfam is currently collaborating with the Government,…


South Sudan: Wash and Infrastructure Technical Coordinator

Jan 15, 2018 | ACTED

Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity,…


China Is Stealthily Waging a Water War

Jan 15, 2018 | Brahma Chellaney

While international attention remains on China's recidivist activities in the South China Sea's disputed waters, Beijing is also focusing quietly on other waters – of…


Afghanistan: 4 Tribesmen Killed in Clash over Helmand Land Dispute

Jan 15, 2018 | Zainullah Stanikzai, Pajhwok Afghan News

At least four civilians have been killed and six others wounded during a clash with Taliban militants over a land dispute in Musa Qala district…


Myanmar: Jade Sales Fetch Nearly $300 Million

Jan 15, 2018 | Eleven

Myanmar earned over US$290 million (389.8 billion kyat) from jade exports up to the first week of this month in 2017-2018 fiscal year. Sales were…


Conflict Minerals Program Manager

Jan 14, 2018 | Dell

Why Work at Dell? Endless challenges and rewards. Opportunities on six continents. A team of colleagues fueled by collaboration. All this, and a company deeply…


Can the EU Revive a Troubled Scheme against Conflict Diamonds?

Jan 12, 2018 | Vince Chadwick and Lisa Cornish

The European Union began its year-long leadership of the global effort against conflict diamonds this month, pledging to focus on “effectiveness” and “dialogue.” But observers say the…


Nuclear Fusion Is Coming, but Will It Power Peace or War?

Jan 12, 2018 | John Draper and Peerasit Kamnuansilpa

Last month, the European Union-hosted International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) announced it was halfway to completing initial operation, meaning it will begin testing of fusion…


Chocó at Epicenter of Colombia’s Social, Environmental Conflicts

Jan 12, 2018 | Maximo Anderson

One wet November morning deep within Colombia’s western rainforest of Chocó, rebel fighters of the National Liberation Army (ELN) scattered across a muddy football pitch in groups of eight to practice their…


Gas Wars: The First Energy Conflict in 2018

Jan 12, 2018 | ZeroHerge

The eastern Mediterranean is expected to witness the first conflict of 2018, as developments at the end of 2017 are signaling worsening relationships between Turkey…


Colombia: Extractivist Pax vs. Peace with Social and Environmental Justice

Jan 12, 2018 | Tatiana Roa Avendaño

During the last few years, arguments have been put forward to defend the aggressive territorial occupation by oil companies, even in places with no extraction…


Iraq: Inside Mosul Dam, Iraq's Biggest Potential Weapon of Mass Destruction

Jan 12, 2018 | Hollie McKay, Fox News

The Mosul Dam, the largest in the country with the capacity to hold 3 trillion gallons of water, controls the flow of the Tigris River…


Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Parliament Forms Committee to Investigate KRG Oil Sector

Jan 12, 2018 | Rudaw

The Iraqi parliament is going to form a committee to look into the matter of Kurdistan’s oil, said a Kurdish MP, adding it will start…


Egypt/Sudan: Egypt-Sudan Spat Muddies Prospects for Deal on Big Nile Dam

Jan 12, 2018 | Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy

A diplomatic spat between Egypt and Sudan is spilling over into the long-running dispute over a dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River, which…


Afghanistan: Afghanistan to Invest in Five Wheat Storage Facilities

Jan 12, 2018 | Eric Schroeder, World Grain

Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) plans to build at least five wheat storage facilities in five provinces across Afghanistan. Officials with MAIL said approximately $28…


Climate Change: Make Security Strategy Include Climate Again, Lawmakers Urge Trump

Jan 12, 2018 | Timothy Gardner, Reuters

A group of more than 100 bipartisan lawmakers in the U.S. House urged President Donald Trump on Friday to reconsider the omission of climate change…


Afghanistan: MAIL Plans to Establish Five Wheat Storage Facilities

Jan 11, 2018 | Zarmina Mohammadi, TOLOnews

Officials from the Afghan Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) on Thursday said that the ministry plans to build at least five wheat storage…


Afghanistan: Country Director

Jan 10, 2018 | Solidarités International

The SI mission has been opened in February 2017, with emphasis on the Mosul response. The mission counts one coordination in Erbil (5 expatriates and…


Iraq: Livelihoods Programme Manager

Jan 10, 2018 | Mission East

Mission East, founded in Denmark in 1991, is an international humanitarian and development organisation undertaking disaster relief and development programmes in Asia. Mission East worked…


Global Roving WASH Specialist

Jan 10, 2018 | Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life…


Nigeria: Food Security Program Manager

Jan 10, 2018 | Cooperazione Internazionale

COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale is a humanitarian, non-confessional and independent organization founded in 1965 in Milan, Italy. For more than 50 years we have been dedicated to breaking…


Sudan: Country Representative

Jan 10, 2018 | Netherlands Red Cross

Netherlands Red Cross helps to strengthen resilience of vulnerable people exposed to hazards and crisis situations and we respond to disasters and conflicts to save lives and…


Analyst

Jan 10, 2018 | RCS Global

In its 10th year of operation, RCS Global is one of the world’s leading supply chain due diligence advisory and auditing firms. RCS Glocal advises…


Colombia: In Colombia, Marxist Rebels Hold the Oil Industry Hostage

Jan 10, 2018 | Maximo Anderson, Bloomberg

A three-month cease-fire—the first in three years of negotiations between the ELN and the government—expired on Jan. 9. While the group’s leadership, which claims around…


DRC: Congo May More Than Double Tax on Critical Cobalt Supply

Jan 10, 2018 | William Clowes and Thomas Wilson,

The Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing to more than double a tax on two-thirds of global cobalt supply, potentially increasing the cost of the…


Liberia: Forest Benefits for River Cess in Limbo

Jan 10, 2018 | Joaquin M. Sendolo, Observer

Projects that would have been the first tangible benefits for citizens of River Cess County accrued from commercial logging are now stalled because the money…


Colombia: Reintegrating 14,000 Ex-Combatants Remains a Challenge, Security Council Told

Jan 10, 2018 | UN

Colombia's peace efforts remain challenged by the task of reintegrating 14,000 former rebel combatants, the top United Nations official in the country said Wednesday as…


Africa: When Humans War, Animals Die

Jan 10, 2018 | Ed Yong, Atlantic

Together with Rob Pringle, from Princeton University, Joshua Daskin compiled 65 years’ worth of data on the abundance of large mammals across all of Africa.…


New Data Highlight Afro-Descendant Territories without Legal Recognition, and the Threats They Face

Jan 9, 2018 | Mary Alice Jackson

New data gathered from Afro-descendant community councils and state records reveal that the Colombian government has failed to address 271 claims for collective Afro-descendant land…


Myanmar: Illegal Burmese Wood Used in British Boats, Says Organization

Jan 9, 2018 | Lauren Crothers, Mongabay

Timber that is being illegally logged and smuggled out of Myanmar is ending up as decking on luxury yachts in the UK, according to one…