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Syria/Lebanon/Turkey: Food System Strengthening (FSS) Lead, Türkiye, Syria and Lebanon

Sep 1, 2025 | Welthungerhilfe

The position is to be filled as soon as possible, with an initial contract duration of one year. There are very good prospects for an…

Niger: Expert Principal en Évaluation Environnementale et Sociale

Sep 1, 2025 | Société de Développement International

La mission du Consultant porte sur la conception d’un projet d’électrification et d’accès à l’électricité dont le financement pourrait être mobilisé, justifiant les études complètes…

Niger: Expert en Électrification Rurale

Sep 1, 2025 | Société de Développement International

Uganda: Agronomist - Karamoja - Ugandan Nationals Only

Sep 1, 2025 | Insieme si può

Insieme Si Puo' - ISP in Africa is a non-profit making organization based in Uganda since 1983, it has two territorial offices in Kampala and Moroto,…

Uganda: Advisor for Environmental Peacebuilding (m/f/x)

Sep 1, 2025 | AGIAMONDO e.V.

AGIAMONDO e.V. is the personnel service of German Catholics for development cooperation. In the Civil Peace Service, we offer professionals the opportunity for meaningful service in…

AU Seeks Women’s Hand in Bringing Peace to Sudan, Sahel, Horn of Africa

Aug 31, 2025 | Dotto Lameck
Daily News

IN strengthening the African Union’s efforts to advance the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda across the continent, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission…

Sudan/South Sudan: Sudan Orders Oil Shutdown; South Sudan Exports at Risk

Aug 31, 2025
Radio Tamazuj

Sudan’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has ordered an emergency shutdown of oil facilities in the Heglig area near the border with South Sudan following…

Myanmar: Myanmar Rare Earth Mines Surge in Rebel-Held Areas, Fuelling Toxic Risks

Aug 30, 2025
Nation

When it comes to rare earths, the world almost instinctively looks to China. The country is not only the global leader in rare earth processing,…

Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Armed Clash Erupts between Afghanistan and Tajikistan over Border Dispute and Mining Activities

Aug 30, 2025
AKIpress News Agency

An armed conflict occurred on August 24 in the Dawang border area of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province between Taliban forces and Tajikistan. One Taliban fighter was…

Gold in Sudan: A Resource between Looting and Smuggling… or a Tool for Post-War Recovery

Aug 29, 2025 | Omer Sidahmed

For thousands of years, gold has been tied to Sudan’s identity—from the kingdoms of Kush and Napata to the inscriptions left by the Pharaohs who…

Liberia: Liberian Communities Await Justice at Salala Rubber Plantation after World Bank Complaint

Aug 29, 2025 | Victoria Schneider
Mongabay

Five months after the World Bank’s private investment arm submitted its action plan to address community grievances against a rubber plantation it funds in Liberia,…

Afghanistan/China: Contract Breach or Banditry? Inside the Collapse of the Taliban's Oil Deal with China

Aug 29, 2025 | Anthony Kuhn and Vincent Ni
NPR

Turbaned Afghan officials and hard-hatted Chinese engineers gathered in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province in 2023 to mark the opening of Chinese-invested oil fields. The fields are…

Registration Now Open for Symposium on Water-Energy-Peace Nexus

Aug 29, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and University of Ottawa

Registration has opened for a one-day hybrid Symposium on the Water-Energy-Peace Nexus, which will be hosted by the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and the University…

Conflict at COPs: Russia’s Exit from the Ramsar Convention

Aug 28, 2025 | Eva Baudichau and Meng Wang

Russia’s withdrawal from the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands didn’t make global headlines—but it probably should have. At first glance, a wetlands convention may seem an…

Afghanistan: Foreign Investors Invited to Invest in Afghanistan's Mining Sector

Aug 28, 2025
TOLOnews

In a speech at Tatarstan's Oil and Gas Industrial Forum, Minister of Mines and Petroleum Hedayatullah Badri highlighted Afghanistan's vast oil and gas reserves and…

Why Future Wars Will Be Fought over Water Supply

Aug 26, 2025 | Patrick Yeager

In the coming years, increasing water insecurity will threaten many nations’ internal stability, challenge the viability of large cities worldwide, and worsen international conflicts. Of…

‘Carbon Colonialism’?

Aug 26, 2025 | Tina S. Mehnpaine

The Liberian government has sparked a debate with the release of its draft Carbon Development Policy, which declares that all carbon credits generated within the…

Myanmar: Over 1,300 Protected Forests across Myanmar Require Legal Protection

Aug 26, 2025 | Htet Nadi and Thet Paing
NP News

Myanmar has established and designated 1,328 reserved and protected forests as of July 31, 2025, according to data provided to The Statesman by the Forest…

Colombia: SIPRI Co-Hosts Policy Events on Climate Justice in Colombia

Aug 26, 2025
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

On 13–14 August 2025, SIPRI co-hosted a series of meetings in Bogotá, Colombia. The events brought together Colombian policymakers, regional specialists and civil society groups.…

Myanmar: Myanmar Junta Recaptures Mandalay Gold Mine

Aug 26, 2025
Irrawaddy

The military regime has taken back control of the sprawling Phayaung Taung gold mine on the border of Madaya, Patheingyi, and Pyin Oo Lwin townships…

Israel/Lebanon: 'When Bombs Turn Taps off': Israel Wrecks Lebanon's Water Systems Despite Ceasefire

Aug 26, 2025 | Sarah Khalil
New Arab

Six months after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was meant to halt fighting in Lebanon, violations persist, and hundreds of thousands of civilians remain…

Israel/Syria: Damascus Is Running out of Water. The Culprit? Climate Change, Conflict...and Israeli Land Grabs

Aug 26, 2025 | Youssef Al Ibrahim
New Arab

For the first time in half a century, Damascus and its surrounding countryside are experiencing an unprecedented water shortage that has forced authorities to implement…

How Weather Stations Are Empowering Farmers and Building Peace in Northwest Nigeria

Aug 25, 2025 | UNDP Nigeria

For generations, farmers in Nigeria have relied on traditional agricultural practices, their wisdom passed down through time and rooted in cultural traditional knowledge. These methods…

Afghanistan: Taliban Announce Confiscation of Vast Tracts of Land in Logar

Aug 25, 2025
Afghanistan International

The Taliban say they have confiscated more than 1,400 acres of land in Logar province, classifying it as state property. The Taliban have established the…

Somalia: Seeds of Recovery: Somali-Led Solutions at a Turning Point

Aug 25, 2025 | Claudia McGoldrick
International Organization for Migration

For decades, Somalia has been defined by crisis – conflict, drought, floods, displacement, and insecurity. But today, across this complex, proud, and resilient country, a…

DRC: Congo’s Mineral Curse Fuels US-China Rivalry

Aug 25, 2025
Lowy Institute

The Democratic Republic of Congo is again at the centre of one of the world’s most severe humanitarian and security crises. Despite the public headlines…

Ukraine/Russia: Ukraine War Briefing: Water Crisis in Russian-Held Donetsk as Canal Eludes Capture

Aug 25, 2025 | Warren Murray
Guardian

The illegally appointed head of the partly Russian-held Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine has said a water crisis that is forcing people to queue at…

The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable

Aug 24, 2025 | Katie Surma
Inside Climate News

When Jingjing Zhang saw a string of urgent texts light up her phone, she knew something had gone wrong.

Photo and video messages showed a tidal…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan Builds 120 Onion Cold Storage Facilities to Strengthen Food Security in Rural Areas

Aug 24, 2025
Xinhua

A total of 120 onion cold storage facilities are under construction across provinces with the financial support of the World Bank in Afghanistan. According to…

Afghanistan: Farmers in Herat Turn to Drip Irrigation amid Ongoing Drought

Aug 23, 2025
TOLOnews

Over the past year, the drip irrigation system has expanded in several districts of Herat. Drought and water shortages have forced farmers to adopt this…