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Harnessing NIC Surveillance for Better Climate Security Outcomes

Jun 10, 2025 | Isabelle Bond

Australia’s National Intelligence Community could substantially enhance Australia’s climate security response. It could do so by applying its surveillance resources to the task.

Sushi Wars: Maritime Food Security, Criminal Networks and Geopolitical Risk

Jun 10, 2025 | Masaaki Yoshimori

Global fisheries, particularly the sushi supply chain, are entangled with rising geopolitical tensions, climate change and transnational crime. China’s use of distant-water fishing fleets as…

Ethiopia: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Lead

Jun 10, 2025 | Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse

Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse (VSF-Suisse) is a politically and religiously neutral humanitarian and development organisation with its headquarters in Berne, Switzerland, and country offices in…

Mehmet Altingoz

Environmental Engineer
Türkiye’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Turkey
Jun 10, 2025

Mehmet Altingoz is an environmental engineer and water policy expert dedicated to fostering cooperation over shared waters in regions of conflict. Having served in the…

UK: Researcher: Climate, Militaries and Conflicts

Jun 9, 2025 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

CEOBS provides a voice for our environment – and those who depend upon it – when it faces harm from armed conflicts and military activities.…

Call for Applications: Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding Training (Deadline: June 15, 2025)

Jun 9, 2025 | Geneva Water Hub

Join the Geneva Water Hub in Geneva from September 29 to October 3, 2025, for a transformative training course on Law, Policy and Science in…

Rivers as the New Frontlines of Geopolitics

Jun 8, 2025 | Samirul Ariff Othman

We are used to thinking of power grids, trade routes, and semiconductor fabs as the terrain of 21st-century power competition. But now add rivers—yes, rivers—to…

Sudan: Cholera Outbreak Worsens with 1,000 Daily Cases in Sudan

Jun 8, 2025 | Lukman Abdulmalik
The Star

Sudan is grappling with a fast-spreading cholera outbreak, with health officials reporting over 1,000 new cases daily in the capital, Khartoum. The surge in infections…

Afghanistan: Kabul at Risk of Becoming First Modern City to Run out of Water, Report Warns

Jun 7, 2025 | Mariam Amini
Guardian

Kabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, experts have warned. Water levels within Kabul’s aquifers have dropped by up…

Key Changes to the DRC Mining Code: A New Era for Investors and National Development

Jun 6, 2025 | Amani Cibambo

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to some of the world’s richest deposits of cobalt, copper, and other critical minerals, enacted major revisions to…

Minerals for Recognition: The Taliban’s Shadow Diplomacy

Jun 6, 2025 | Islomkhon Gafarov

Since the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan’s mineral and extractive industries have assumed growing strategic importance in the broader context of sustaining the country’s fragile…

Rwanda/DRC: Hidden Invasion: Rwanda's Covert War in the Congo

Jun 6, 2025 | Michela Wrong
NBC News

Leaked reports, satellite images and interviews reveal the extent of Rwanda's shadow war in the Congo, as the US tries to strike a deal for…

Djibouti: Réalisation d’Une Étude de Faisabilité du Projet, Jardins Urbains et Péri-urbains pour l’Autonomisation des Femmes dans la Région de Tadjourah

Jun 5, 2025
International Organization for Migration

L’objectif général de l’étude est d’évaluer la faisabilité technique, sociale, économique et environnementale de la mise en place de jardins maraichers urbains et péri-urbains, destinés…

Securing Women’s Land Rights: A Pathway to Food Security

Jun 5, 2025 | Sunaina Kumar
Observer Research Foundation

Despite playing a central role in food systems, women lack secure land rights in more than half of all countries, posing serious implications for food…

Nepal: Centring Women’s Knowledge and Leadership in Nepal’s Climate Response

Jun 5, 2025 | Manjeeta Gurung
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Indira Dhital, a local woman leader from Kavre, central Nepal, recently recited this poem at the culmination of a UN Women project focused on building…

Sierra Leone Charts a New Diamond Story

Jun 5, 2025 | Jill Newman

Sierra Leone is historically rich in diamond deposits. They are found largely in alluvial mines, where miners sift through layers of mud and gravel for…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Erbil Rejects Oil Smuggling Accusations as Tensions with Baghdad Escalate

Jun 5, 2025
Rudaw

The Kurdistan Region’s natural resources ministry on Thursday rejected accusations by Iraq’s oil ministry of smuggling crude and failing to cooperate on oil handover. It…

South Sudan: South Sudan Imposes Emergency as Herder Clashes Kill Hundreds

Jun 5, 2025
Agence France-Presse

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Thursday declared a state of emergency in areas hit by deadly inter-communal clashes over cattle raids that have killed…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Erbil-Baghdad Tensions Escalate over Oil Production

Jun 5, 2025 | Wladimir van Wilgenburg
S&P Global Commodity Insights

The Iraqi Federal Ministry of Oil called on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to immediately hand over regional oil production on June 5, accusing the…

Afghanistan: UN Warns: Afghanistan’s Water Crisis and Lack of Green Spaces Threaten Lives

Jun 4, 2025
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has issued a warning regarding environmental degradation and the consequences of climate change in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: Plundering Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: Global Silence and Environmental Destruction

Jun 4, 2025 | Ahmad Tamim Azimi
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Afghanistan is a land rich in underground resources—an abundance that, in terms of value and diversity, could form the backbone of its national economy and…

New UN Review Highlights Youth Role in Climate, Peace, and Security

Jun 4, 2025 | Tara Abhasakun
Peace News

Across the globe, 698 million young people between the ages of 15 and 35 live in fragile and conflict-affected settings, according to the United Nations…

Georgia: Consultant, Enabling Actions to Address Challenges of Environmental Migration in Georgia

Jun 3, 2025
International Organization for Migration

Support the compilation of best practices on the migration, environment, and climate change (MECC) nexus mainstreaming and implementation of a case study to assess the…

Canada: Assembly of First Nations Releases 2025 Progress Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice, Highlighting Human Trafficking Crisis

Jun 3, 2025 | The Assembly of First Nations
The Assembly of First Nations

(June 3, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – On the sixth anniversary of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered…