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Pills and Pollution: Captagon Production in Syria

Oct 1, 2025 | Leon Moreland

Captagon is the street name for fenethylline, a synthetic stimulant created by chemically bonding amphetamine, a powerful central nervous system stimulant, with theophylline, a drug…


Liberia: FAO Calls for Clearer Land and Forest Rights in Liberia

Oct 1, 2025 | Francis G. Boayue
FrontPage Africa

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening natural resource governance in Liberia, urging reforms to clarify…


The Nexus of Conflict, Mining, and Violence in Eastern DRC

Sep 30, 2025 | Ashley Nunes

After decades of bloodshed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Félix Tshisekedi recently demanded the country’s parliament and the international community recognize the…


EnPAx Icon CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Sep 30, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.…


Canada: Financial Controller

Sep 30, 2025 | IMPACT

IMPACT transforms how natural resources are managed in areas where security and human rights are at risk. We investigate and develop approaches for natural resources…


Ukraine: WASH/Shelter/NFI Coordinator

Sep 30, 2025 | Polish Humanitarian Action - Polska Akcja Humanitarna

Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) is an international non-governmental organization which since 1992 has been providing humanitarian and development help worldwide. So far, the interventions have…


Afghanistan: Climate Change and Environment Coordinator (Expatriate)

Sep 30, 2025 | Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees

DACAAR is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization that supports sustainable development in Afghanistan through promoting the ability of local communities to decide upon and manage their…


Afghanistan: Country Director

Sep 30, 2025 | Norwegian Church Aid

NCA has provided assistance to the Afghan population since 1979 and established an office in 1996. Our program focuses on integrated watershed management, linking sustainable…


DRC: Country Director

Sep 30, 2025 | One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to…


Kenya: Program Assistant - Communications and Visibility (Level P1)

Sep 30, 2025 | African Union - InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources

The African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) is a specialized technical office of the Department Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment…


Kenya: Animal Production, Natural Resource Management & Resilience Expert (P3 Level)

Sep 30, 2025 | African Union - InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources

The African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) is a specialized technical office of the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable…


From Minerals to Influence: Resource-for-Security Deals Reshaping Power Dynamics in Africa

Sep 29, 2025 | Amandine Gnanguênon and Marius Kretzschmar

In response to shifting geopolitical dynamics and as a clear sign that governments are increasingly embedding minerals into their foreign policy, recent developments point to…


Trump’s Dip into the Nile Waters Dispute Didn’t Settle the Conflict — in Fact, It May Have Caused More Ripples

Sep 28, 2025 | Fred H. Lawson

Nile River water is essential to agriculture and public sanitation in both Egypt and Sudan. Distribution of that water has been regulated by an agreement…


Afghanistan: Stripped of Inheritance, Women in Afghanistan Are Denied Even Their Own Property

Sep 28, 2025 | Elina Qalam
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Women in Kabul say that the patriarchal structure of society has deprived them of their right to ownership. They explain that because of stereotypes and…


Israel’s Gecocide in Gaza Sends This Message: Even If We Stopped Dropping Bombs, You Couldn’t Live Here

Sep 27, 2025 | George Monbiot

A landless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which…


Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Resumes Kurdish Oil Exports to Turkiye after Two-and-a-Half-Year Halt

Sep 27, 2025
Al Jazeera

Iraq has resumed crude oil exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to Turkiye after an interim deal broke a two-and-a-half-year deadlock over legal and technical…


Afghanistan: Did Restrictions on Women Workers Hamper Afghanistan’s Earthquake Response?

Sep 27, 2025 | Ruchi Kumar
Al Jazeera

In 2022, the Taliban government banned women from working in NGOs operating in the country. A year later, it also forbade Afghan women from working…


Trump’s Dip into the Nile Waters Dispute Didn’t Settle the Conflict – in Fact, It May Have Caused More Ripples

Sep 26, 2025 | Fred H. Lawson

Nile River water is essential to agriculture and public sanitation in both Egypt and Sudan. Distribution of that water has been regulated by an agreement…


How Water Fuels Conflict in Pakistan

Sep 26, 2025 | Daanish Mustafa

For ten days in April 2025, Pakistan almost came to a standstill. No freight was moving from its only port city, Karachi, towards the population…


South Sudan Can Leverage Oil Revenues to Develop the Wildlife Sector

Sep 25, 2025 | Leek Daniel

The development of a sustainable wildlife sector in South Sudan, leveraging oil revenues, requires a multifaceted approach that addresses conservation, economic diversification, governance, and community…


South Sudan: Climate Security Risks Brewing in South Sudan as Floods Escalate in Many Parts of the Country: A Case of Panyijiar

Sep 25, 2025 | Amos Agiro
UNDP

Catastrophic flooding in Panyijiar County has displaced more than 100,000 people, including 45,000 children and 26,000 women. Entire communities now struggle to survive, as floodwaters…


Bangladesh/Myanmar: Myanmar Put Landmines along the Cox’s Bazar Borders of Bangladesh to Stop Cow Smugglers

Sep 25, 2025
Hindu Voice

What was once a border meant to separate two nations has, for Bangladeshis living in Cox’s Bazar, become a deadly minefield. For the past eight…


Iraq/Kurdistan: Eight Oil Companies Reach Agreement with Iraq, KRG to Resume Oil Exports

Sep 25, 2025
Reuters

Eight oil companies operating in Iraqi Kurdistan, representing over 90% of production, reached agreements in principle with Iraq's federal and Kurdish regional government (KRG) to…


Afghanistan: Kabul’s Highland Residents Struggle amid Severe Water Shortages

Sep 25, 2025 | Bibi Amina Hakimi
TOLOnews

In the high slopes of Kabul, where houses are built on the mountain sides, people's lives tell a different story of hardships. Residents of these…


Sunk Debris from World Wars Provides Home for Wildlife

Sep 25, 2025 | Robert Egan
Nature Publishing Group

More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea's seabed than on the sediment surrounding it. The…


Liberia: Mapping Liberia’s Fishing Future: New Study Highlights Urgent Need to Protect Landing Sites and Fishers’ Rights

Sep 25, 2025
Environmental Justice Foundation

Liberia’s small-scale fisheries are the backbone of coastal livelihoods, but they face mounting threats from coastal erosion, mangrove destruction, and insecure land rights. Fishing communities’…


Pakistan: Maryam Announces Special Courts for Land-Grabbing Cases

Sep 25, 2025
The News

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz announced new legislation to eliminate land grabbing targeting orphans, widows, and underprivileged citizens in the province. She also announced the…


Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi PM Announces ‘Historic’ Deal to Resume Kurdish Oil Exports

Sep 25, 2025
Rudaw

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Thursday announced that his government has reached a "historic agreement" with the Kurdistan Region to resume Kurdish oil…


Blood Minerals and Resource Curse: The Case of Sudan and the DRC

Sep 24, 2025 | Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam

Minerals fuel modern civilization, ensuring comfort and amenities. From electronic devices to machines of all types, various minerals are required to operate them. Should we…


The Environment as Casualty of War

Sep 24, 2025 | Tom Hardy

A 2019 study by Stanford University found that climate change contributed to three to 20 per cent of global conflicts over the past century. As global…