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Guinea/Liberia: Beyond Diplomacy: Resolving the Liberia–Guinea Border Question

Mar 26, 2026 | Monie R. Captan
FrontPage Africa

Border disputes are fundamentally legal—not political—matters. While diplomacy can ease tensions, it cannot substitute for legal resolution. Liberia and Guinea must seek clarity through international…

DRC: How Mines in War-Torn DRC Lie at the Heart of Trump’s Fortune-Hunting in Africa

Mar 25, 2026 | Sam Kiley
Independent

The east of DRC is rich in tin, gold, timber and other resources that have attracted opportunists and multinational corporations in equal measure since the…

Multinational: African Development Bank’s Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa Approves $5.65 Million to Pioneer New Climate Finance Instrument for Off-Grid Renewable Energy projects in Africa’s Fragile States

Mar 25, 2026
African Development Bank

The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors has approved a $5.65 million reimbursable grant from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) to pilot…

Liberia: Liberia Launches Kimberley Process Review to Strengthen Diamond Sector Oversight

Mar 25, 2026 | David Menjor
Liberian Investigator

Liberia has launched a high-level review mission under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), marking its first comprehensive assessment since 2013 and signaling renewed efforts…

How Wars Change Weather: From Acid Rain to Toxic Fog; the Hidden Impact Revealed

Mar 25, 2026
Times of India

One of the most impactful ways that war affects the weather is through the formation of acid rain. This is caused by war equipment, blasts,…

Myanmar: New Generation of Myanmar Conservationists Deepen Their Connection to the Salween

Mar 25, 2026
International Union for Conservation of Nature

The Salween Youth Engagement Programme is part of IUCN’s pioneering Building River Dialogue and Governance (BRIDGE) programme, which aims to build water governance capacities through…

DEADLINE EXTENDED: EnPAx Award for Best Student Paper on Environmental Peacebuilding (8 May 2026)

Mar 25, 2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

At the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (16-19 June 2026), the Environmental Peacebuilding Association will present the Award for Best Student Paper on Environmental…

M.A. in Environment, Development, and Peace

Mar 24, 2026 | University for Peace

The Master of Arts Degree in Environment, Development, and Peace (EDP) provides comprehensive training in issues of sustainable development, environmental governance, natural resource management, and environmental…

Energy Security Is National Security: Fixing America’s Incoherent Energy Policies

Mar 24, 2026 | Greg Pollock and Joshua Busby

For years, Republican politicians advocated an “all of the above” energy strategy, supporting continued oil and gas production while also scaling up renewable energy. Though…

Hydro War Crime

Mar 24, 2026 | Naseer Memon

Water is as precious a commodity as oil for countries of the Middle East. In the absence of freshwater resources, the region relies heavily on…

Egypt/Ethiopia: Egyptian Outrage as Ethiopia Announces Plans for More Dams on Blue Nile

Mar 24, 2026 | Saleh Salem
New Arab

Ethiopia has announced plans to construct three new dams on the Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile River, sparking anger in Egypt, where…

Guinea/Liberia: Boakai Calls on Macron in Liberia-Guinea Border Dispute

Mar 24, 2026
FrontPage Africa

President Joseph Boakai has reportedly sought the intervention of French President Emmanuel Macron regarding Liberia's ongoing border dispute with neighboring Guinea. This comes amid allegations…

Burkina Faso/Mozambique: How Gaps in Land Access Fuel Conflict: Lessons from Burkina Faso and Mozambique for 'Do No Harm' Approach

Mar 24, 2026 | Rick de Satgé and Luis Baquero
Land Portal

These cases are not exceptional. They reflect a systemic problem: the gap between who legally owns land and who can actually use it. This gap…

Planet Launches New Initiative on Planetary Security

Mar 24, 2026 | Andrew Zolli and Andrew Hassanali
Planet Pulse

On a volatile and changing planet, the landscape of security risks is expanding, and our notion of security must expand with it. This is the…

How CIMMYT is Advancing Women-centered Agriculture in Africa

Mar 23, 2026 | Mariana Callejas
CIMMYT

Across Africa, women play a central role in producing food, managing farms, and sustaining household nutrition and incomes. Yet their contributions are still too often…

Chagos and the Militarization of the Indian Ocean

Mar 23, 2026 | Nitya Labh

The geopolitics of the wider Indian Ocean have undergone tremendous shifts over the past few decades, as traditional maritime powers like the United Kingdom, the…

Beyond the Ban: Why Mining Reform Is Nigeria’s Next Peacebuilding Frontier

Mar 23, 2026 | Ephraim Emah

Nigeria’s mining sector is often described in binary terms: to some, it is a sleeping economic giant, which is key to diversifying a mono-product economy,…

South Sudan’s Resilience Trap: The Dark Side of Resilience and the Way out

Mar 23, 2026 | Joe Mabor

South Sudanese are among the most resilient people on earth, as demonstrated during the twenty-one-year war of liberation that led to independence in 2011, and…

Climate Change: “Renewables Deliver Climate Security, Energy Security and National Security”: UN Secretary-General

Mar 23, 2026
UN

The State of the Global Climate is in a state of emergency. Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits. Every key climate indicator is…

Afghanistan: War and Climate Stress Push Afghan Farmers to the Brink

Mar 23, 2026 | Fawad Ali
Dialogue Earth

Afghanistan has lived through over four decades of armed conflict. It is also one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate…

Iran/United States: Why Iran’s Threat to Destroy Water Facilities Could Spell Disaster for Gulf Countries

Mar 23, 2026 | Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Guardian

Iran has threatened “irreversible destruction” of water infrastructure across Gulf countries, if the US follows through on Donald Trump’s threat to attack Iran’s electricity grid.…

Uganda: How Women are Still Walking Miles for Water and Paying the Price

Mar 22, 2026 | Ronald Musoke
The Independent

In the vast, sun-scorched plains of Uganda’s northeastern region of Karamoja, the search for water begins before the day has properly broken. In scattered homesteads…

Canada: PBI-Canada Notes Concerns about Risk of Violence to Indigenous Land Defenders, Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA People near Major Projects

Mar 22, 2026 | Brent Patterson
PBI-Canada

Peace Brigades International-Canada expresses concern that proposed major extractive projects brings an increased risk of violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in communities…