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Syria: WASH Technical Advisor
Nov 27, 2017
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Oxfam GB
Oxfam is an international confederation of 20 NGOs working with partners in over 90 countries to end the injustices that cause poverty. Oxfam has been…
Lebanon: Food Security and Livelihood Coordinator
Nov 27, 2017
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Première Urgence Internationale
Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and…
Afghanistan: Programme Management Officer
Nov 27, 2017
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UN Environment
The United Nations Environment is the United Nations systems designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to…
GIS Analyst
Nov 27, 2017
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UN Office for Project Services
The Haiti Sustainable Energy Programme aims to improve access to sustainable energy in the Haiti Grand Sud Region through enhanced governance and education, renewable and…
From Conflict to Climate Change, Are Policy Responses to Food Insecurity Getting Smarter?
Nov 27, 2017
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Ellen Laipson
This week, many Americans savor the seasonal culinary delights of Thanksgiving, while around the world, food insecurity is on the rise, particularly in places suffering…
Absence of Water Diplomacy Leads to Ecological Disasters
Nov 27, 2017
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Financial Tribune
Many environmental challenges such as drought and dust storms are the outcomes of ineffective past water diplomacy, an expert on geopolitics said. Mohammad Hossein Papoli Yazdi,…
War Has Made Afghanistan's $1 Trillion in Minerals Worthless
Nov 27, 2017
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Eric Schewe
Middle East observers surfaced last month to remind the American public that the United States’ war in Afghanistan had entered its seventeenth year. This makes…
Liberia: LEITI Enhances Submission of Payment and Revenue Data
Nov 27, 2017
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FrontPageAfrica
The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) over the weekend conducted a one-day technical workshop on the submission of payment and revenue data for the…
Nigeria/South Sudan: Mini-Refineries as Model for Meeting Nigeria, South Sudan Oil Demands
Nov 27, 2017
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Victor Gbonegun, Guardian
The importance of petroleum refinery especially for a country like Nigeria, which is heavily endowed with crude oil, cannot be over-emphasized. In fact, its significance…
Afghanistan: Afghan Farmers Revive Olive Gardens to Replace Opium Poppies
Nov 27, 2017
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Abdul Haleem, Xinhua
In Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province where many farmers are still growing opium poppies and producing drugs, some have dared to revive the war-damaged olive gardens…
Afghanistan: Ghani Assigns Team to Find New Markets for Afghan Pine Nuts
Nov 27, 2017
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Syed Zabiullah Langari, TOLOnews
Presiding over a meeting of High Economic Council on Sunday, President Ashraf Ghani assigned a team to work on ways that could help to enhance…
Seeking Panelists: The Political Ecology of Environmental Peacebuilding – Exploring its Values and Critiques in the Context of the Green Economy | POLLEN Biennial Conference 2018
Nov 26, 2017
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Political Ecology Network
The POLLEN Biennial Conference 2018, is looking for paper proposals and panelists for the "CfP POLLEN18: The Political Ecology of Environmental Peacebuilding – Exploring its Values and…
Iraq: Iraq Offers Nine Oil and Gas Blocks for Exploration Near Iran, Kuwait Borders
Nov 26, 2017
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Reuters
Iraq will invite foreign energy firms to bid for the exploration and development of nine new oil and gas blocks bordering Iran and Kuwait, the…
China/Vietnam/South China Sea: A Defiant Map-Hunter Stakes Vietnam’s Claims in the South China Sea
Nov 25, 2017
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Mike Ives, New York Times
Eight years ago, officials in Danang asked Tran Duc Anh Son to travel the world in search of documents and maps that support Vietnam’s territorial…
Iraq/Kurdistan/Turkey: Report: Turkey's PM Praises Iraqi Court Ruling on Kurdistan Referendum
Nov 25, 2017
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Rudaw
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has praised the cancellation of Kurdistan's independence vote by Iraq's Federal Court. The Turkish premier spoke by phone with his…
Afghanistan: Aino Mina Project Was Built Legally: Karzai
Nov 25, 2017
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Karim Amini, TOLOnews
A day after a presidential decree on assessment of Aino Mina Township in Kandahar was leaked to media, founder of the township, Mahmoud Karzai, said…
Uganda: Naked Force Meets Naked Resistance in Northern Uganda Land Conflict
Nov 24, 2017
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Liam Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
When a government minister visited a remote part of northern Uganda earlier this year, she was greeted with a sit-down protest, indignant politicians and topless…
Colombia: Celsia Makes Pact with Indigenous Peoples over 100MW Colombia Solar Project
Nov 24, 2017
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Tom Kenning, PV-Tech
Celsia, the energy arm of Colombian conglomerate Grupo Argos, has moved forward with its development of a 100MW solar farm in Colombia by reaching an…
Saudi Arabia/Qatar: OPEC Chatroom Dead as Qatar Crisis Hurts Gulf Oil Cooperation
Nov 23, 2017
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Rania El Gamal and Dmitry Zhdannikov, Reuters
As a six-month-old spat between Saudi Arabia and Qatar deepens, the organization’s Gulf ministers will have to scrap their tradition of meeting behind closed doors…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Kurdistan Oil Exports on Rise, but Below Original Output Levels: Source
Nov 23, 2017
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Karzan Sulaivany, Kurdistan 24
Oil flows in Kurdistan are on the rise despite sanctions imposed by Baghdad after the Region’s vote for secession, but still remain below their original…
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Manual to Help Resolve Issues between Pakistan, Afghanistan Proposed
Nov 23, 2017
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Mushtaq Ghumman, Business Recorder
Participants of a panel discussion on Wednesday proposed that a manual should be developed to resolve issues including water sharing between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Giving…
Myanmar: MIC Suspends New Investments in Timber Businesses
Nov 23, 2017
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Htin Lynn Aung, Myanmar Times
Permission for to start new timber-based businesses will be temporarily suspended in Myanmar, the Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) said in a November 16 statement, which…
Afghanistan: US Strikes on Taliban Opium Labs Won't Work, say Afghan Farmers
Nov 23, 2017
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Mohammad Stanekza and Girish Gupta, Reuters
As U.S. and Afghan forces pound Taliban drug factories this week, farmers in the country’s largest opium producing-province and narcotics experts say the strategy just…
Liberia: Environmental Protection Agency Conducts Validation Training on Fuel Efficiency
Nov 22, 2017
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Gerald C. Koinyeneh, FrontPageAfrica
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia with support from the United Nations Environment Program has ended a two day validation workshop on fuel efficiency…
US Government Releases First US Global Water Strategy
Nov 22, 2017
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WaterWorld
The U.S. Government recently released its U.S. Global Water Strategy to address the challenges of the global water crisis that may increase disease, undermine economic…
Colombia: In Post-Conflict Colombia, Land-Rights and Funding for Peacebuilding Face off
Nov 22, 2017
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Taran Volckhausen, Christian Science Monitor
In 2016 – and in a series of similar rulings since – Colombia’s highest court struck down a 2001 mining law that granted the national…
Iraq/Kuwait: Iraq Looks to Kuwait Gas Pipeline to Pay off Reparations
Nov 22, 2017
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Rania El Gamal, Osamu Tsukimori and Dmitry Zhdannikov, Reuters
Kuwait’s oil ministry did not respond to a request for immediate comment. Oil minister Issam Al-Marzouq said last month that talks between Kuwait and Iraq…
Over 2300 Registered for MOOC on Environmental Security & Sustaining Peace so Far!
Nov 21, 2017
Since launching the trailer and official registration on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (November 6),…
Afghanistan: Province Programme Manager
Nov 21, 2017
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Mission East
Mission East, founded in Denmark in 1991, is an international humanitarian and development organisation, working in South and Central Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Position…
DRC: Program Director - Land Access and Food Security
Nov 21, 2017
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps has been operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since August 2007, with a staff of around 250 people working in…