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Program Officer - Economics

May 6, 2014 | United States Institute of Peace

Working alongside the Senior Advisor for the Economics and Peacebuilding Center (EPBC), the Program Officer is responsible for providing general support to the EPBC program…

DVB Debate: When Does the Government Have the Right to Take Land?

May 6, 2014 | DVB

Wealthy Burmese companies with political leverage, often financially backed by foreign investors, have been claiming farmlands around the country for development projects over the past…

Africa: East Africa's Oil and Gas Infrastracture to Take Lead in Africa

May 6, 2014 | Constant Munda, AllAfrica

EAST Africa is poised to lead the rest of Africa in developing infrastructure for the nascent oil and gas industry, a new report by audit…

SEC Confirms Conflict Minerals Rule Remains (Largely) In Place

May 6, 2014 | Rakesh Gopalan, Alex J. Brackett, Richard W. Viola and Jane Whitt Sellers, McGuireWoods LLP

Yesterday the Division of Corporate Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued its much-anticipated guidance regarding its conflict minerals rule, stating that, with the…

Liberia: Affected Citizens Disrupt EPO Expansion in Grand Bassa County

May 6, 2014 | Alpha Daffae Senkpeni, AllAfrica

Buchanan — The Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) has again faced stiff resistance from some affected communities when residents disrupted an EPO mapping process on last…

Africa: Resistance to Liberia Landgrabs a Warning to Africa Investment Conference

May 6, 2014 | AllAfrica

Abuja (Nigeria) / Monrovia (Liberia) — On the opening day of a 6-8 May conference in Abuja aimed at attracting private sector agricultural investment in…

Myanmar: MPs Concern Over ‘Land Grab’ Commission Continues to Mount

May 5, 2014 | Mizzima

Hluttaw MPs have levelled renewed criticism at the regional and state sub-committees of the Land Use Management Committee, suggesting misinformation and a lack of transparency.

Speaking…

Liberia: Judge Kaba - Land Issue Is a National Challenge

May 5, 2014 | Abraham Sollie, All Africa

The Presiding Judge at the Criminal Court "A",Jusuf Kaba, has described land issue in Liberia as a national challenge. Criminal Court "A" is situated at…

Liberia: Gbarpolu, Bong Land Dispute Worrisome

May 5, 2014 | AllAfrica

Tension is said to be brewing between Bong County and the newly created Gbarpolu County, with claims and counter-claims over a piece of land running…

Lessons Learned Webinar: Suppliers Using SEC Conflict Minerals Reporting to Gain Market Share

May 5, 2014 | SBWire, Green Status Pro

Woburn, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/05/2014 -- Green Status Pro sponsored a unique peer-to-peer webinar, May 31 Deadline: Conflict Minerals Lessons Learned, on May 1,2014.…

Liberia: Oil Company: Spent US $138m In 2012/13; No Report In 2013/14

May 5, 2014 | J. Yanqui Zaza, The Perspective

Liberia’s annual budgetary document, like any other budget, should fulfill at least the civil obligation in providing transparent, verifiable information to the public. This practice,…

SEC Issues Statement on D.C. Court of Appeals Decision on Conflict Minerals Rule: First Reports Due by June 2, 2014, as Scheduled

May 5, 2014 | Alston & Bird LLP

On April 29, 2014, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) issued a statement providing guidance regarding the effect of the decision of the…

South Sudan: Geopolitics of Nile Water - Its Implications on S. Sudan Conflict

May 5, 2014 | Deng Mading Gatwech, AllAfrica

In Africa, access to water is one of the most critical aspects of human survival. Today, about one third of the total population lack access…

Senegal/Casamance: Community Forestry is Defusing Africa's Longest-Running Conflict

May 5, 2014 | Louise Hunt, Ecologist

The Casamance - a strip of land lying to the south of Gambia - is home to Africa's longest running conflict, a 30-year low intensity…

Afghanistan: Survivors’ Hopes Fade in Aftermath of Afghan Landslide

May 4, 2014 | Azam Ahmad and Habib Zahori, The New York Times

ABI BARAK, Afghanistan — With hope gone that the 2,100 people thought to be buried by a mountain of mud here could be rescued, most…

Myanmar: Organic farming offers Kachin IDPs vital health options

May 4, 2014 | Seamus Martov, Democratic Voice of Burma

NHKAWNG PA, KACHIN STATE — It has been nearly three years since fighting between Burma’s military and the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) forced Lazing Lu…

Myanmar: Burma’s mangroves in danger of extinction

May 4, 2014 | Zaw Htet, Democratic Voice of Burma

Thick mangrove forests once lined Burma’s coastline, but in the past 30 years over half of the country’s mangrove forests have been destroyed.

Mangrove trees are…

Myanmar: Can Myanmar’s ‘Lost World’ Survive Tourism?

May 3, 2014 | Denis D. Gray, The Seattle Times

Where the Indian Ocean rolls toward Myanmar’s southwestern coast, a lacework of 800 islands rises, fringed with shimmering beaches of no footprints.

Here in the islands…

Myanmar: Displaced Villagers File Complaint Regarding Japan’s Investment in Myanmar’s Thilawa Special Economic Zone

May 3, 2014 | Asian Tribune

Tokyo, 03 May, (Asiantribune.com): Three residents from the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) area near Yangon, Myanmar, delivered an Objection to the Examiner for the…

Sierra Leone: China's Hunger for Sea Cucumbers Reaches Islands of Sierra Leone

May 2, 2014 | Tommy Trenchard, Reuters

(Reuters) - As evening falls over Sierra Leone's Banana Island archipelago, bats stream from their beachside roosts to circle in their thousands over the jungle…

Liberia: UNIDO Donates Hydro-Electrical Equipment

May 2, 2014 | AllAfrica

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on Tuesday donated hydro-electrical equipment to the Stella Maris Polytechnic for the establishment of "Small-hydro Power Technology Center"…

Somalia: War, Late Rains Spark Somalia 'Crisis' Warning

May 2, 2014 | Ahram Online

War and delayed rains in Somalia are putting thousands of lives at risk, especially in areas where African Union troops are battling Islamist extremists for…

Conflict Minerals: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Issues Statement on the Effect of the Recent US Court of Appeals Decision on the Conflict Minerals Rule

May 2, 2014 | Mark D. Wood and Michael L. Mason, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

On April 29, Keith Higgins, the Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, issued a public statement offering guidance on companies’…