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41 Years in the Making: Why China's South China Sea Plan Will Fail
May 8, 2015
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Leszek Buszynski
While China’s recent assertiveness in the South China Sea might shock and surprise today’s observers, its behavior has actually been remarkably consistent over recent decades.
China…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Oil Row Boils Over as Baghdad ‘Refuses’ KRG’s Full Share
May 8, 2015
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Rudaw
Iraq’s central government has refused to send the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s share of oil revenue for the month of April which were previously agreed…
Commonwealth Professional Fellowship
May 7, 2015
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The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University, England
The CTPSR has launched a six week ‘Improving Natural Resource Governance through Citizen Engagement’ fellowship programme (planned for mid-September to end-October 2015) for civil society…
Timor-Leste: ICJ Confirms Aust to Return Timor Docs
May 7, 2015
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Julian Drape, AAP
The United Nation's top court has confirmed it's authorised Australia to return documents seized from a lawyer representing East Timor in a dispute over a…
Nigeria: Bill to End Fulani, Farmers’ Conflict Scales Second Reading
May 7, 2015
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Sylvester Ugwuanyi, Daily Post
A bill seeking to bring an end to the conflict between Fulani herdsmen and farmers which had resulted into loss of lives and property across…
DRC: Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Next Emerging Economy?
May 7, 2015
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Djenabou Cisse, Global Risk Insights
With positive macroeconomic indicators, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is aspiring to be an emerging country by 2030. To achieve this goal, the country…
Fragile States Use Geospatial Data and Maps to Better Manage Natural Resources
May 6, 2015
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Alex Fischer
The g7+ countries (a voluntary grouping of 20 states affected by fragility) have recognized that one of the first step towards addressing the challenges identified in natural…
Sudan: Sudan Warns Against Illegal Mining Activities in Neighbouring Countries
May 6, 2015
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Sudan Tribune
Sudan has warned its nationals against illegal expansion of traditional mining activities outside Sudanese territories and described the phenomenon as a “time bomb” that would…
Kenya: Dozens Killed in Fighting Tied to Cattle Raid
May 6, 2015
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New York Times
Fifty-four people have been killed in Kenya’s north in fighting that the police say was started by a cattle raid, the Kenya Red Cross said…
Colombia: More Land in Colombia Used to Grow Coca, U.S. Says
May 6, 2015
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William Neuman, New York Times
The amount of land in Colombia used to grow coca, the plant that drug traffickers use to make cocaine, increased significantly last year, according to…
Oil, Gold, Etc., Invite Investors, and Yes, Corruption & Inequality
May 5, 2015
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J. Yanqui Zaza
Diamonds, gold, etc., resources needed for prosperity, are in abundance in Liberia, specifically, and in general, in Africa. Investors, invited or not, are in every…
Iraq/Kurdistan: KRG: Erbil Committed to Oil Export Agreement and Baghdad Should Send the Budget
May 5, 2015
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Shwan Barzinji, Basnews
An official from the Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has said that the KRG has fulfilled all of…
South Sudan/Sudan/Abyei: U.N. Says Apprehended Sudan Intel Officer after Attack Near Abyei
May 5, 2015
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Louis Charbonneau, Reuters
U.N. peacekeepers in the disputed region of Abyei along the border of Sudan and South Sudan apprehended someone claiming to be a Sudanese intelligence officer…
Myanmar: Mass Protest Held Against Mon State Coal Plant Proposal
May 5, 2015
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Yen Snaing, The Irrawaddy
An estimated 5000 people from villages across Ye Township gathered in Inn Din village on Tuesday morning to protest the Union government’s plan to build…
India: Politicians, Bureaucrats Involved in Forest Land Grabbing, Smuggling: Minister
May 4, 2015
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Kashmir Life
In a bid to put lid over the grabbing of forest land and timber smuggling in Jammu and Kashmir, government Monday said that big names…
Liberia: GROW-Liberia Launches Innovative Agriculture Programme
May 4, 2015
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Front Page Africa
GROW Liberia officially launches its landmark “Making Markets Work for the Poor” (M4P) agricultural market development programmed on the seventh of May.
The GROW-led M4P…
Timor-Leste: George Brandis Hands Over to East Timor Docs Seized by ASIO
May 3, 2015
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Tom Allard, Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian government has agreed to return legal documents and data seized by ASIO to the East Timorese government. It is the latest twist in a…
Iraq: Source: Islamic State Attacks Iraq’s Biggest Oil Refinery with Suicide Bombers and Car Bombs
May 3, 2015
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Benjamin Gilbert , Vice
Fierce fighting has erupted at Iraq's largest oil refinery after militant fighters with the so-called Islamic State (IS) used suicide bombers, car bombs, rockets, and mortars…
South Sudan: South Sudan Seeks to Generate Non-Oil Revenues through Economic Diversification
May 3, 2015
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Sudan Tribune
South Sudanese government said its economy needed urgent diversification to wean it from depending on oil in long term response to the economic crisis, urging…
Timor-Leste: Timor-Leste Welcomes Australia's Return of Spying Documents Seized by Asio
May 3, 2015
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Daniel Hurst, The Guardian
The Timor-Leste government has praised a decision by the Australian government to return documents about past spying that were at the centre of raids by…
Myanmar: Moving the Earth: Women Take On Land Aggressors
May 3, 2015
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Sonya Carassik Ratty, Democratic Voice of Burma
From the platinum reserves in eastern Shan State to the Shwe gas pipeline in south-western Arakan, much of Burma’s wealth lies in the earth. As…
China/South China Sea: Making Waves
May 2, 2015
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The Economist
In November, after months of frantic land reclamation in the South China Sea aimed at boosting its vast territorial claim there, China tried a subtler…
China/South China Sea: China is Building Mobile Islands in the East Sea
May 2, 2015
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VietNamNet Bridge
In relation to warnings about American experts on China’s manufacturing of a series of "mobile islands" in the East Sea, marine expert Phan Vinh Tri,…
Environmental Peacebuilding in the South China Sea
May 1, 2015
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Ryan Stoa
In recent years the South China Sea has become a fiercely contested region. China's rise as a regional and global superpower has emboldened an aggressive…
Is the Rubber Industry Dragging Its Heels on Sustainability?
May 1, 2015
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Megan Macinnes
Our recent Guns, Cronies and Crops exposé revealed the human toll of the rubber industry in Myanmar, where companies colluded with the former military junta to seize vast…
Amid Katmandu's Earthquake Wreckage, Hints of a Shift to Safer Construction
May 1, 2015
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Andrew C. Revkin
In the world’s crowded earthquake zones, fromthe Himalayas to the Pacific Northwest, every community faces enormous challenges in designing for inevitable, but unpredictable jolts. This challenge is particularly…
Conservation for Peace: Perspectives of Environmental Peacebuilders in Liberia and Timor-Leste
May 1, 2015
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Brittany Ajroud and Janet Edmond
Environmental peacebuilding is an emerging field of practice that responds to the needs of the many remote, biodiverse communities around the world that struggle to prevent…
Cote d’Ivoire/Liberia: Trouble at Liberia/Ivorian Border, Land Encroachment by Ivorians Gives Rise to Serious Conflict between Both Countries
May 1, 2015
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Cholo Brooks, Global News Network
Report from Liberia/Ivorians border speaks of serious conflict between citizens of both Countries following report that the citizens of Ivory Coast have resolved to encroach…
Empowering Women in the Mines of the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Apr 30, 2015
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The World Bank
After two decades of civil war and ongoing conflicts, vulnerable populations throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have continually been pushed off their traditional agricultural…
Liberia: Senator Proposes Oil Benefit Bill
Apr 30, 2015
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Necus M. Andrews, The NEWS
A bill seeking for the allocation of five percent of the rights and interest in each petroleum block has been introduced at the Liberian Senate.…