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Sudan/Darfur: Sudan Summons U.S. Envoy over Darfur Sanctions Draft Resolution

Feb 10, 2016 | Reuters

Sudan's foreign ministry summoned the U.S. charge d'affairs in Khartoum on Wednesday over Washington's sponsorship of a draft UN Security Council resolution extending sanctions related…

Timor-Leste: Labor Offers New Maritime Boundary Deal for East Timor

Feb 10, 2016 | Tom Allard, Sydney Morning Herald

Labor has pledged to submit to international adjudication over the disputed maritime boundary between Australia and East TImor if "good faith" negotiations fail to produce…

Afghanistan: Newcastle Man Helped Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan

Feb 10, 2016 | Maia Zewert, Lincoln County News

Merle Parise, of Newcastle, credited serving on various local boards and organizations and his studies in environmental science and climate and society as contributing factors…

Colombia: Drought in Colombia Causes Food Prices to Skyrocket

Feb 10, 2016 | teleSUR

Colombia has been suffering the effects of El Niño for months, causing intense drought in certain regions of the country. But the drying up of…

Call for Papers: Avoiding Catastrophe: Linking Armed Conflict, Harm to Ecosystems, and Public Health

Feb 9, 2016 | Concordia University (Loyola Sustainability Research Centre)

The conference explores links between conflict, environmental degradation, and problems associated with public health provision in times of crisis. Emerging zoonotic and other infectious diseases…

On the Road to Peace in Colombia, It’s Important to Remember the Underlying Causes of Conflict

Feb 9, 2016 | Stephanie Burgos

The longest lasting and only remaining internal armed conflict in this hemisphere may be coming to a close soon. After more than 50 years, Colombians…

South Sudan: South Sudan Says 500 Elephants May Have Died During Two-Year War

Feb 9, 2016 | Okech Francis, Bloomberg

At least 500 elephants may have been killed during South Sudan’s two-year civil war, including 15 slaughtered in one day last month, the African nation’s…

Colombia: Colombia Court Revokes all 347 Mining Licenses in Paramos

Feb 9, 2016 | Adriaan Alsema, Colombia Reports

Colombia’s constitutional court has revoked all mining licenses granted to companies that wanted to carry out mining activities in one of the South Americans paramos, according to…

Climate Change, Disasters, and Security: Unconventional Approaches to Building Stability

Feb 8, 2016 | Gracie Cook

It is “not sufficient to look at history for lessons on how we should prepare for and prevent future security risks in a climate change…

Myitsone Dam is as Much Aung San Suu Kyi's Problem as Beijing's

Feb 8, 2016 | David I. Steinberg

In September 2011, Myanmar President Thein Sein dropped a bombshell on his country's previously close relations with China. Citing the public interest, he announced that…

Afghanistan: IS Runs Timber Smuggling Business in Afghanistan, Officials Say

Feb 8, 2016 | Zia-U-Rahman Hasrat, Voice of America

Islamic State has started cutting down trees in some parts of eastern Afghanistan in a timber-smuggling operation to neighboring Pakistan, according to Afghan officials and…

South Sudan: Unprecedented Food Crisis Looms over Strife-Torn South Sudan, UN Agencies Warn

Feb 8, 2016 | United Nations

South Sudan faces unprecedented levels of food insecurity, with 2.8 million people, nearly 25 per cent of the population, in urgent need of aid, at…

Myanmar: With Mining Law Changes, Are Foreign Firms Set to Dig In?

Feb 8, 2016 | Seamus Martov, The Irrawaddy

Long-anticipated revisions to Burma’s Mining Law, which were passed by the outgoing Parliament at the end of last year, could spur foreign investment in a…

Kurdistan/Iraq: KRG Oil Exports Earn $682M a Month

Feb 7, 2016 | Daniel J. Graeber, United Press International

With formal statehood under consideration, the Kurdish government continues to make its regular payments for crude oil exports, Genel Energy said. Genel, which has headquarters…

South Sudan/Sudan: South Sudanese Government Says Will Pay Sudan Unpaid Arrears in Kind

Feb 7, 2016 | Sudan Tribune

South Sudanese government said Sunday it has reached an understanding with the government of neighbouring Sudan to pay in kind as a payment for unpaid…

Myanmar: Diversion Eeirs Installed to Prevent Embankment Erosion in Magway Region

Feb 7, 2016 | Eleven Myanmar

The Water Resources and Creeks Development Department of Magway Region, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, is building diversion weirs across the regions rivers…

Afghanistan: Governor Orders Halt to Forest Cutting in Nangarhar

Feb 6, 2016 | Zeerak Fahim, Pajhwok Afghan News

Launching a spring tree plantation campaign, the governor on Saturday said he had directed district and police chiefs of some districts to prevent forests from…

Myanmar: Myanmar Submits Landmark Extractive Industries Report

Feb 5, 2016 | Oliver Slow, Frontier Myanmar

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has welcomed the first report to be submitted by Myanmar since it was granted candidate status for membership with the…

Colombia: Peasants Sue over Mining Contamination

Feb 5, 2016 | World War 4 Report

Indigenous and Black communities in Colombia's Chocó department filed a lawsuit this week, claiming 37 of their children died after drinking water contaminated with mercury by…

Liberia: Natural Resources Justice Advisor

Feb 4, 2016 | PAE

A Natural Resources Justice Advisor will advise, mentor, train, and support key actors in the GOL and assist the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy,…

Climate Security: New Climate & Security Film: The Age of Consequences

Feb 4, 2016 | Sophie Robinson, Huffington Post

A documentary is taking a new twist on climate change: THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES, to be released in late 2016, investigates the impacts of climate…

Armed Conflict, Environmental Protection and the Sustainable Development Goals

Feb 3, 2016 | Doug Weir

Unless the international community does more to protect and restore the environment from the impact of armed conflict, many countries will fail to meet the…

China/Vietnam/United States/South China Sea: Vietnam Backs Latest US Challenge to Beijing’s Sovereignty in South China Sea, Say Analysts

Feb 3, 2016 | Kristine Kwok, South China Morning Post

Washington may claim its latest operation in the South China Sea was aimed at challenging Vietnamese territorial claims in the region as much as China’s,…