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Ethiopia: Water and Sanitation Development Coordinator
Mar 9, 2016
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Pharo Foundation
The Pharo Foundation is a private foundation committed to the development of Africa. Our vision is an economically self-reliant Africa. Our mission is to facilitate…
Somalia: Agricultural Development Coordinator
Mar 9, 2016
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Pharo Foundation
Vacancy Announcement The Pharo Foundation is a private foundation committed to the development of Africa. Our vision is an economically self-reliant Africa. Our mission is to…
Somalia: Water Development Coordinator
Mar 9, 2016
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Pharo Foundation
Vacancy Announcement The Pharo Foundation is a private foundation committed to the development of Africa. Our vision is an economically self-reliant Africa. Our mission is to…
Armed Conflict Harms Countries’ Environmental Performance
Mar 9, 2016
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Doug Weir
Improvements in global environmental monitoring are continuing to provide evidence showing that conflicts and insecurity have a persistent and negative impact on environmental governance. With…
Myanmar: Suu Kyi Party Mulling Myanmar China Dam Rethink, Says Economic Advisor
Mar 9, 2016
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Agence France-Presse
Aung San Suu Kyi's incoming government is considering a rethink of a controversial Chinese-backed dam in Myanmar and looking for ways to end a military…
Sierra Leone: 'One Day, They Will Rise up': Explosive Anger Builds around a Tiffany Diamond Mine
Mar 9, 2016
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Cooper Inveen, VICE News
When the siren begins to wail, those who live closest to the mine start packing up their belongings. Armed guards keep watch, ensuring that they…
Iraq: Iraq Prepares to Amend Its Existing Oil Contracts
Mar 9, 2016
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Omar Sattar, Al-Monitor
Oil revenues accruing from oil field development and production in Iraq no longer match the revenues made before the licensing contracts the Ministry of Oil…
Myanmar: Yangon Water Supplies to Outlast Hot Season, Says YCDC
Mar 9, 2016
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Khin Wyne Phyu Phyu, Myanmar Times
Yangon has nothing to fear from El Niño, city officials say, despite warnings that the weather phenomenon will bring drought to many parts of the…
Africa: Hunger Intensifies in Areas Suffering From Drought, Flooding and Conflict - UN Report
Mar 9, 2016
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United Nations
Thirty-four countries, including 27 in Africa, are currently in need of external assistance for food due to drought, flooding and civil conflicts, according to a…
Environment, Peace, and Security Certification of Professional Achievement
Mar 8, 2016
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Columbia University
Columbia University’s Environment, Peace, and Security Certification of Professional Achievement will prepare you to understand the rapidly changing connections between environment and security dynamics, and…
Armed Groups and Mineral Extraction in the DRC
Mar 8, 2016
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Washikala Malango
As armed groups are the main perpetrators of the ongoing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, many actors working in the country have…
Who Owns the Land?
Mar 8, 2016
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Tom Hundley
In little more than half a century, the world’s population has increased from 2 billion to more than 7 billion. Unfortunately, the size of the…
Can Mining Dig Rural Women Out of Poverty in Ghana?
Mar 8, 2016
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Amani Mhinda
Walking within the artisanal and small-scale mining population in Tarkwa, one of Ghana's principal mining regions, it dawns on me that the local population has…
Women Pay Heavier Price for Big Dams
Mar 8, 2016
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Jamie Skinner
Large dams are displacing thousands of people in West Africa in societies where women traditionally have few legal or customary rights to the natural resources…
Myanmar: China Says Still Trying to Resolve Stalled Myanmar Dam Scheme
Mar 8, 2016
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Reuters
China is pursuing efforts to resolve the problem of a stalled dam project in Myanmar, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, adding that Beijing had…
Liberia: ‘Too Much Money’: No Land - GVL Planning Liberia Bow
Mar 8, 2016
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Rodney D. Sieh, FrontPageAfrica
A recurring Liberian nightmare is forcing another concessionaire out the door. FrontPageAfrica has reliably learned that the palm giant, Golden Veroleum, the world’s second largest…
Kurdistan/Iraq: Idle Pipeline Almost Halves North Iraq February Oil Exports
Mar 7, 2016
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Isabel Coles, Reuters
Oil exports from northern Iraq nearly halved in February due to the ongoing outage of a pipeline to Turkey, wiping $350 million off the cash-strapped…
Environmental Peacebuilding & Sustainability: Peace Parks in the Balkans
Mar 6, 2016
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International Peace Park Expeditions & Ohio University
International Peace Park Expeditions and Ohio University will offer the following accredited academic expedition focused on Environmental Peacebuilding this summer with a deadline to apply…
Myanmar: China Will Renegotiate on Myitsone Dam with New Government
Mar 5, 2016
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Mizzima
Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Mr. Hong Lian said that China would renegotiate with Myanmar’s new government on Myitsone Dam, averting any call to seek damages…
Transforming Myitsone Into a Win-Win
Mar 4, 2016
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Joern Kristensen
The incoming National League for Democracy government will soon need to make important decisions about the controversial Myitsone Dam. But it will also have to…
Afghanistan: Opium Bounces Back, Enriching Taliban and Afghan Officials
Mar 4, 2016
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Hanne Couderé, IRIN
Poppy season is in full swing in the western province of Helmand, which last year yielded almost half of Afghanistan’s entire opium harvest, according to…
Myanmar: Jade Traders Call for Open Market as Sales Reach New Lows
Mar 4, 2016
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Chan Mya Htwe, Myanmar Times
Plummeting demand from China has spurred jade traders to demand the right to sell internationally. Traders say the economic slowdown in Myanmar’s giant neighbour, and…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Taliban War: Opium Fuels Conflict as Farmers Pray for a Prosperous Harvest
Mar 4, 2016
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Michael Kaplin, International Business Times
Despite billions of dollars in U.S. investment to eradicate opium cultivation, Afghanistan produces the bulk of the world’s opiate supply, and much of that money…
Iraq: Iraq to Pay $2 bln in Arrears to Foreign Companies-Deputy Oil Minister
Mar 4, 2016
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Aref Mohammed, Reuters
Iraq will pay foreign oil companies about $2 billion in remaining arrears for 2015 this April and expects to reach an agreement over contracts by…
South Sudan: South Sudan Oil Production Pollution Threatens Thousands: Rights Group
Mar 4, 2016
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Agence France-Presse
Dangerous heavy metals used in oil production in war-torn South Sudan have leaked into drinking water sources used by 180,000 people with life-threatening health risks,…
A Healthy Environment Must be a Human Right – Especially in Armed Conflict
Mar 3, 2016
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Doug Weir
The question of whether a healthy environment is a human right has been occupying the minds of legal experts and governments since the 1980s. In…
The Drought that Preceded Syria's Civil War Was Likely the Worst in 900 Years
Mar 3, 2016
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Elaisha Stokes
Syria's civil war has left 250,000 people dead, according to the latest UN count, and millions more are either displaced within the country's borders or…
Kurdistan/Iraq: Kurds Tighten Grip on North Iraq Oil Fields with Kirkuk Deal
Mar 3, 2016
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Khalid Al Ansary and Bruce Stanley, Bloomberg
Iraq’s self-governing Kurds are cementing control over oil produced in the north of the country by agreeing to sell crude pumped in the contested province…
Sri Lanka: Little Hope for Displaced Sri Lankans to Have Land Returned
Mar 3, 2016
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Niranjani Roland and Asanka Fernando, Union of Catholic Asian News
Land grabbing went into overdrive after Sri Lanka's 25-year-long civil war ended in 2009. Following the conflict, large tracts of land inhabited by Tamil communities…
Egypt/Ethiopia: Water Wars Intensify Between Egypt, Ethiopia
Mar 3, 2016
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Walaa Hussein, Al-Monitor
Egyptians are worried about uncertainties surrounding Ethiopia's schedule for storing Nile water behind the walls of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The latest satellite photos show Ethiopia is preparing…