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Sierra Leone: Building Resilient Food Systems in Sierra Leone: Sustainable Agriculture, Community Empowerment, and Strategic Partnerships for Long-Term Food Security

Jul 8, 2025
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL), through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) working with its development partners, the Food and Agriculture Organization…

India/Pakistan: After Decades of Agreement, There's Tension over Water

Jul 8, 2025 | Kate Seamons
Newser

India's suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan has put the region's water security—and its delicate peace—at greater risk. The treaty, which had divided…

DRC/Rwanda Peace Deal: Perspectives on Minerals, Security and Human Rights

Jul 8, 2025
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

The DRC is a major supplier of critical minerals such as coltan , copper and cobalt , all essential to the technology, security, and energy…

New Security Beat Finds a New Home

Jul 8, 2025 | Lauren Herzer Risi

In the wake of last week’s devastating floods in Central Texas, and with the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on the horizon, new data underscores…

Remote: Consultant (Nature-based Solutions and Climate Mobility)

Jul 8, 2025 | International Organization for Migration

Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. IOM is…

Somalia: Programme Officer

Jul 8, 2025 | European Institute of Peace

Based in Brussels and active in over a dozen countries, the European Institute of Peace is an independent organisation working collaboratively with the parties to…

Call for Proposals: Path To Ottawa

Jul 7, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association & University of Ottawa

In the lead-up to the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding–taking place in June 2026 in Ottawa, Canada–the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and Conference partners…

Austria: Generic Internship

Jul 7, 2025 | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

With 57 participating States in North America, Europe and Asia, the OSCE – the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe – is the world’s…

Myanmar: Farmers in Kyaikmaraw Forced to Grow Monsoon Rice amid Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance

Jul 7, 2025
Independent Mon News Agency

Despite the presence of landmines and unexploded ordnance left behind by the military junta, farmers along the Gyaing River in Kyaikmaraw Township, Mon State, continue…

Extreme Weather and War: How Climate Change Fuels Global Tensions

Jul 5, 2025 | Shah Fahad

When we think of climate change, melting glaciers and rising sea levels may come to mind. But climate change does more than just affect the…

Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Centre Local Voices in the Climate Change, Conflict and Peacebuilding Nexus

Jul 5, 2025 | Kgomotso Komane

The rise of conflicts in societies has been attributed to a multitude of factors ranging from political, socio-economic grievances to ethnic and religious hostilities. Poverty,…

Minerals for Peace? How to Make the Rwanda-DRC Deal Stick.

Jul 4, 2025 | Lewis Mudge

A US-brokered peace deal, signed on June 27 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, will link economic integration and respect for territorial…

DRC/Rwanda: UN Report Reveals Involvement of Russian-Linked firm in DRC's Illicit Mineral Trade

Jul 4, 2025 | Solomon Ekanem
Business Insider Africa

A new United Nations report has for the first time publicly identified a Russian-linked company operating in Rwanda as being complicit in the illicit trade…

Israel/Ukraine: Israel Expands Ukraine Aid with Lifesaving Water Infrastructure for Frontline Regions

Jul 4, 2025 | Vlad Litnarovych
UNITED24 Media

Israel will provide Ukraine with an additional humanitarian aid package that includes advanced water supply systems for hundreds of thousands of civilians in areas where…

Egypt/Ethiopia: Ethiopia Completes Controversial Nile Dam, Escalating Dispute with Egypt

Jul 4, 2025
France 24

Ethiopia’s prime minister said on Thursday the contested Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile is complete, a key step in a dispute with Egypt…

Liberia: Community to Protest over Forest Benefits

Jul 4, 2025 | Emmanuel Sherman
FrontPage Africa

A community forest in Grand Bassa County bordering Nimba has threatened to stop a logging company’s operation for failing to deliver on development projects, barely…

Legal Pluralism in Practice: Colombia’s New Framework for Indigenous Territorial Self-Government

Jul 3, 2025 | Marzia Genovese

In May 2025, the Colombian government took a historic step toward realising a long-delayed constitutional promise: by means of a decree, it recognised the right…

Afghanistan: Building Homes, Losing Harvests: Ghazni’s Farmland Crisis Threatens Food Security

Jul 2, 2025 | Elina Qalam
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Several residents in Ghazni province have expressed concern over the increasing sale of agricultural lands for residential construction, warning that this trend could seriously threaten…

Iraq: Iraq Reports 34 Percent Revenue Decrease in Four Months

Jul 2, 2025 | Hastyar Qadir
Rudaw

Iraq’s finance ministry on Wednesday reported revenues of 28 trillion dinars (about $21.3 billion) in the first four months of 2025, a 34 percent increase…

DRC/Rwanda: Mineral Smuggling from Congo to Rwanda at ‘Unprecedented Levels’, UN Says

Jul 2, 2025
Bloomberg

Mineral smuggling from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo into neighboring Rwanda has reached “unprecedented levels” amid the occupation of a large swath of the region…

Ukraine/Russia: Russia Turns Water into Weapon in Ukraine, Expert Explains

Jul 1, 2025
RBC-Ukraine

The number of conflicts caused by water resources is growing globally, and this issue could become a new challenge for global security, including Ukraine. Amid…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad-Erbil Oil Talks Stall over Federal Refusal to Sign Written Deal

Jul 1, 2025
Rudaw

Negotiations between Erbil and Baghdad on resuming Kurdish oil exports have stalled, as the two sides have failed to reach consensus on a formal, written…

DRC: Solar Minigrid Brings Light and Hope to a Goma Neighborhood, Offering Blueprint for Rest of Congo

Jun 30, 2025 | Tammy Webber, Justin Kabumba, and Moses Sawasawa
Associated Press

In several Goma neighborhoods where almost nobody had electricity just five years ago, a small solar network is offering a flicker of hope despite widespread…

Colombia: Women in Colombia Pioneer Coca Leaf Ink, Turning Stigma into Opportunity

Jun 30, 2025 | Darvin Salamanca
Colombia One

Colombian designers Mónica Suárez and Daniela Rubio run Ginger Blonde, a graphic design and visual communication studio pioneering the use of coca leaves as a…

Who’s Blowing up Oil Tankers That Carried Russian Oil?

Jun 30, 2025 | Jim Geraghty

Limpet mines are explosives placed on the side of ships, usually attached with magnets. At least four, and perhaps five oil tankers getting damaged by…

Climate Change: The Climate-Space-Security Nexus

Jun 30, 2025 | Christine Nam
Open Access Government

At first glance, the words climate, space, and security appear disconnected. Yet, as we will show, they are intrinsically intertwined in modern society’s peace and…

DRC/Rwanda: Congo Gold Miners Forced to Work without Pay by M23 Rebels

Jun 30, 2025 | John Zadeh
Discovery Alert

In a significant escalation of eastern Congo's ongoing conflict, Chinese-owned Twangiza Mining SA has reported that M23 rebels have completely seized control of its gold…

Call for Abstracts and Papers: Seminar on Protection of Environment during War and Armed Conflict

Jun 30, 2025
Indian Society of International Law

The Centre for Advanced Studies in International Humanitarian Law and Military Law at the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL) is pleased to announce a…

Afghanistan: UN Food Organization Establishes over 2,000 Cold Storage Units for Farmers in Afghanistan

Jun 29, 2025
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has announced the establishment of over two thousand simple and smart cold storage units for…

Afghanistan: Abundant Crops, Empty Pockets: Afghanistan’s Farmers Struggle to Sell

Jun 28, 2025 | Avizha Khorshid
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Amid a surge in watermelon and melon production, several farmers and vendors in Afghanistan are voicing concerns over the lack of a viable market for…