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Colombia: Colombian Land Mines Unearthed by Ground-Penetrating Radar

Mar 18, 2016 | Jack Loughran, Engineering and Technology Magazine

Ground-penetrating radar systems are being used to detect land mines in Columbia far more effectively than with traditional methods. German researchers from Ruhr University Bochum…

Algeria: Gas Facility in Algeria is Attacked with Rockets

Mar 18, 2016 | Associated Press

Unknown attackers fired rockets on Friday at a gas facility in the Sahara in Algeria, the energy companies Statoil and BP said. There were no…

South Sudan: South Sudan Fuel Crisis Crippling Services and Drivers

Mar 18, 2016 | Parach Mach, Anadolu Agency

Another widespread fuel shortage has hit South Sudan’s capital, Juba rendering institutions ineffective amid hyperinflation after the country’s central bank devalued the currency by about…

Calculating the Environmental Benefits of Peace in Colombia

Mar 17, 2016 | Doug Weir

Colombia’s environment has suffered widespread and severe damage as a result of half a century of armed conflict. With a peace agreement with FARC on…

Kurdistan/Iraq: Iraq Halts Exports through Pipeline to Pressure Kurds - Iraq Oil Report

Mar 17, 2016 | Maher Chmaytelli and Chris Reese, Reuters

Iraq's central government has stopped oil exports through the Kurdish region to pressure the local authorities to resume talks about an oil revenue sharing agreement,…

Colombia: 'FARC Frog' Caught up in Colombian Conflict

Mar 17, 2016 | Roser Toll, Agence France-Presse

The little green frog's natural camouflage reminded the professor who discovered it of the guerrilla fighters hiding out in the very same Colombian forest. Conservationists…

Somalia: Elephant in Stealth Mode: A Bull Named Morgan Survives Somali War Zone

Mar 17, 2016 | Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times

Elephant experts in Kenya were excited recently by some rare good news: An elephant had crossed into Somalia — and survived. Somalia, one of the…

Five Years on: Lessons Learned from the Environmental Legacy of Syria’s War

Mar 16, 2016 | Wim Zwijnenburg

This week the Toxic Remnants of War Network commemorates the beginning of the conflict in Syria. The devastation wrought upon the country has cost the…

Colombia: Can Sustainable Farming Revive Colombia’s Former Killing Fields?

Mar 16, 2016 | Karen Tatiana Pardo, El Espectador

In what was once the setting of civil war and gangland murder, peasants in northern Colombia's Montes de María region are using sustainable farming practices…

South Sudan: South Sudan Army Says Land Grabbing Not Official Policy

Mar 16, 2016 | Sudan Tribune

South Sudan’s national army, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), has distanced itself from reports charging that some of its soldiers and officers have been…

Kurdistan: Iraq: Iraq Preparing to Push Islamic State Away from Oil Region: Report

Mar 16, 2016 | Reuters

Kurdish Peshmerga forces, an Iran-backed Shi'ite militia and Iraq's army will launch an offensive soon to push Islamic State fighters away from the northern oil…

Ethiopia/Egypt: Church Could Broker Peace in 'Water Wars' between Egypt and Ethiopia

Mar 16, 2016 | Mark Woods, Christian Today

Christians could play an important role in easing tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia, according to an Egyptian Coptic bishop. Tensions have risen between the two countries…

Syria: Syrian Kurds Hope to Establish a Federal Region in Country’s North

Mar 16, 2016 | Anne Barnard, New York Times

Syrian Kurdish parties are working on a plan to declare a federal region across much of northern Syria, several of their representatives said on Wednesday.…

Kabul Greenbelt Project aims to Restore some Luster to War-ravaged Capital – and Resilience too

Mar 15, 2016 | Elizabeth B. Hessami

It’s hard to imagine today, but Kabul was once ringed with grassy areas and shrubs, a few trees in areas too. Some of my husband’s…

Cambodia: Kingdom's Sugar Exports to EU Plummet

Mar 15, 2016 | Will Jackson, Phnom Penh Post

New figures show that Cambodia’s sugar exports to the European Union fell by 94.8 per cent between 2013 and 2015, amid accusations of rights abuses…

Myanmar: NLD under Pressure to Scrap Hydropower Projects

Mar 15, 2016 | Lun Min Mang, Myanmar Times

Huge hydropower projects along the Thanlwin River must be halted, civil society organisations said yesterday, in an appeal to the incoming National League for Democracy…

Sierra Leone & Liberia: Research Associate in Natural Resources and Development (Fixed-Term)

Mar 14, 2016 | University of Bath (Social & Policy Sciences)

Applications are invited for a full-time Research Associate to work on a project entitled, ‘Deepening governance and widening ‘spaces’ for change: community participation and natural resource…

Iraq: Iraq Runs out of Money to Take on Islamic State

Mar 13, 2016 | Richard Spencer, Telegraph

In the last two months, a new foe has reared its head. The collapse in the price of oil on the world markets, thanks to…

Myanmar: Associate

Mar 12, 2016 | Natural Resource Governance Institute

The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) helps people to realize the benefits of their countries’ endowments of oil, gas and minerals. We do this through…

Water Wars: Flexing Muscles, U.S. Deploys Great Green Fleet to South China Sea

Mar 11, 2016 | Zack Bluestone

In a symbolic show of force, the United States dispatched “a small armada” to patrol the disputed waters of the South China Sea, according to…

Myanmar: Parliament Cancels Discussions on Letpadaungtaung Copper Mine Project, Military Land Seizures

Mar 11, 2016 | Eleven Myanmar

Win Myint, the speaker of Lower House, announced to MPs at a regular parliament session that the discussions on the Letpadaungtaung copper mine project and…

Do You Know Leaders in the Environment and Security Sectors in Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, or South Sudan? Send Us a Message!

Mar 10, 2016 | ELI & UNEP

The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are soliciting input from Members of the Environmental Peacebuilding Community of Practice to…