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Colombia: Agreement to Curb Rising Prices and Speculation in Food

Jan 4, 2016 | Fresh Plaza

The price of food and the Colombians' personal economy have been affected by the rising dollar, the phenomenon of El Niño, and the structural problem…

The Business of War

Jan 3, 2016 | Asad Zaman

As plans for war against Syria heat up, new myths are being manufactured to support it. In line with Major General Smedley Butler’s thesis, we…

Colombia: Inside Colombia’s (New) Cocaine Explosion

Jan 3, 2016 | Jeremy Kryt, Daily Beast

Steep hills rise out of the morning mist like a junky’s dream of paradise: the slopes teeming with lush, illicit vegetation. Palm and banana trees…

China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Protests after China Lands Plane on Disputed South China Sea

Jan 2, 2016 | Reuters

Vietnam formally accused China of violating its sovereignty and a recent confidence-building pact on Saturday by landing a plane on an airstrip Beijing has built…

Myanmar: Low Water Hinders Kayah Hydropower Plants

Jan 2, 2016 | Eleven Myanmar

Water levels supplying the Baluchaung hydropower plants in Lawpita, Loikaw Township, Kayah State, have been declining for a month. Myint Maung, a farmer near no.1…

Iraq: Iraq Says It Exported More Than 1 Billion Barrels of Oil in 2015

Jan 1, 2016 | Khalid Al-Ansary and Kadhim Ajrash, Bloomberg

Iraq said it exported 1.097 billion barrels of oil in 2015, generating $49.079 billion from sales, according to the oil ministry. It sold 99.7 million…

Afghanistan: Salma Dam: Another Key Indian Project in Afghanistan

Dec 31, 2015 | Ranjana Narayan, The Statesman

India’s major development works in Afghanistan are going at a fast pace. The parliament building was inaugurated in Kabul last week by Prime Minister Narendra…

Israel/Palestine: Further Land Grabbing in Jordan Valley

Dec 31, 2015 | International Solidarity Movement

During the past 6 months, the Jordan Valley Solidarity Campaign has registered further land grabbing in Fasayal village in the Jordan Valley. The land, which…

Colombia: Landmines in Colombia Biggest Challenge for Post-War Nation

Dec 30, 2015 | Maria Myka, LATINONE

After decades of war, the Colombian government has finally negotiated peace with the rebel group called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). However, despite…

Iraq/Syria/Islamic State: Thousands of Foreign Workers Help ISIS Keep its Crude Oil Flowing

Dec 29, 2015 | ARA News

The extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) has recruited thousands of workers with experience in the oil industry to help the group keep crude pumping…

Colombia: Demining Colombia Will Take 'a Generation': Minister

Dec 29, 2015 | Agence France-Presse

Clearing the landmines from the half-century conflict in Colombia, which has the most mines of any country outside Afghanistan, will take a generation, Defense Minister…

U.S. Policy Shifts from Détente to Deterrence in the South China Sea

Dec 28, 2015 | Andrew Lam

In geopolitics, when détente fails, it's time for deterrence, and nowhere more so than in the South China Sea. China's expansionist designs on the region's…

Iraq/Syria/Islamic State: Armed with Intel, U.S. Strikes Curtail IS Oil Sector

Dec 28, 2015 | Ben Van Heuvelen, Iraq Oil Report

An intensifying campaign of U.S. air strikes on the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) has nearly shut down its oil operations in Iraq and has hampered…

Iraq: Iraq Approaches Exxon, Petrochina over Southern Energy Project

Dec 28, 2015 | Aref Mohammed and Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters

OPEC's second-largest producer, has approached PetroChina and ExxonMobil about investing in a multi-billion-dollar project to boost output from its smaller southern oilfields, a senior Iraqi…

Liberia’s Economic Diversification Bill: It’s Better, but Seems Too Late

Dec 27, 2015 | Samuel Goteh

In the past centuries, Liberia’s model for economic development has been predominantly natural resource-driven and revenues generation for government’s operations have mainly come from the…

South Sudan: Deadly Famine Looms in South Sudan

Dec 25, 2015 | Richard Nield, Al Jazeera

More than two years after the outbreak of civil war in South Sudan, tens of thousands of South Sudanese face starvation, say NGOs. More than…

U.K.: Campaigner

Dec 24, 2015 | Land and Environmental Defenders

Global Witness’ Land and Environmental Defenders Campaign aim is for ‘defenders’(including communities, activists, lawyers, journalists, civil society organisations and indigenous people) working on environmental and…

Iraq: Iraq Seeks to Reopen Oil Pipeline through Saudi Arabia-Paper

Dec 24, 2015 | Saif Hameed, Maher Chmaytelli, and William Hardy, Reuters

Iraq is seeking to reopen its crude oil export pipeline through Saudi Arabia, shut in 1990, state newspaper Assababah reported citing an unidentified Iraqi official.…

Climate Change: War Gaming the Climate: How Global Warming Could Trigger Nationalism

Dec 24, 2015 | Megan Darby, Climate Home

Backed by the UK’s foreign office and Skoll Global Threats Fund, 24 experts met to play out the implications of a heating planet. These included…

Egypt: Programme Policy Officer (Resilience Building Livelihoods) P4

Dec 23, 2015 | UN World Food Programme

The Cairo Regional Bureau (RBC) is supporting local and national recovery, rehabilitation, “resilience building” and livelihoods protection strategies and efforts. Several Country Offices (COs) have…

The Rare Metal Age

Dec 23, 2015 | Greg Klein

Read this book and you might want to renounce technology to live in a cave—provided it’s equipped with battery rechargers. Author David S. Abraham brings…

Cote d’Ivoire/Liberia/Sierra Leone/Guinea: US$2bn Power Transmission Line for 4 MRU States

Dec 23, 2015 | Global News Network

A 225kv power transmission line costing over US2 billion is to be constructed linking the four Mano River Union (MRU) states to serve the expanding…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Oil Tears Iraq to Pieces

Dec 23, 2015 | Rufiz Hafizoglu, Trend

The division of the Arab countries of the Middle East on a mini "state" is a painful process accompanied by military actions. The common religion…

Climate Change, Arab Spring and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Dec 22, 2015 | Mohammad Bundokji

A contribution from guest writer Mohammad Bundokji, EcoPeace Middle East, on the compound climate-fragility risks arising from water scarcity, energy requirements and population influx in…

How to Conceive Resilience in a Protracted Crisis Situation like Eastern DRC? The Peacebuilding Contribution to Resilience in Conflict Settings

Dec 21, 2015 | Clémence Finaz

Eastern DRC has a long history of pervasive violence and instability. Aid agencies have been sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into this region for…