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Afghanistan: Clash over Land Claims 4 Lives, Wounds 3 in Afghan Province
Oct 25, 2022
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Xinhua
A clash between two families over the ownership of a farmland in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province claimed the lives of four persons and injured three…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Baghdad Court Annuls Three More KRG Contracts
Oct 25, 2022
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Iraq Oil Report
A court in Baghdad has invalidated three more of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) oil contracts, marking a further escalation in the federal government's campaign…
Climate Change: How Cultivation, Climate Change and Conflict Have Changed the Origin of Your Potato Crisps: Study
Oct 25, 2022
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Gill Hyslop , BakeryandSnacks
Agriculture is the backbone of the world’s economic activity (accounting for 4.3% of GDP, with a value of $3.6 trillion in 2020) and critical for…
Will Africa's Metals Boom Suffer the Same Curse as Oil?
Oct 25, 2022
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Agence France-Presse
Mechanical diggers are hard at work in the bleak landscape of the Moanda open-cast mine in Gabon, using giant jaws to rip out manganese and…
Liberia: 22 Affected Communities File Historic Petition for Declaratory Judgment against Salala Rubber Corporation and the Liberian Government
Oct 24, 2022
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FrontPage Africa
Residents of 22 indigenous Kpelle communities, dispossessed of their customary land, cultural sites, and livelihoods, have filed a groundbreaking legal action against the Salala Rubber…
Somalia: Drought in Somalia: The Race to Save Lives as the Climate Crisis and Conflict Drive Hunger
Oct 24, 2022
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Peyvand Khorsandi, World Food Programme
WFP is in a race against time to save lives, with famine projected in Baidoa and Burhakaba, in the country’s Bay region, in coming months…
Afghanistan: Conflict and Drought-Affected People in Herat Provided with Humanitarian WASH Needs
Oct 24, 2022
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Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees
Recent conflicts in Afghanistan and in the meantime prolonged drought mostly in the north and western regions have forced many people to leave their homes…
Afghanistan: Agriculture Industry Complains of Lack of Markets
Oct 23, 2022
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TOLOnews
Participants in the 27th autumn exhibition of agriculture products expressed frustration over lack of sufficient markets for their products. They called on the Islamic Emirate…
Bhutan: Protected Farming to Fight Human-Wildlife-Conflict
Oct 22, 2022
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Kuensel
Pema Letro and his wife Tshering Zangmo’s house at Jigmeling, Gelephu is located on the way that elephants use to cross. With increasing conflicts with…
UN Deputy Chief Calls For Promoting Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding
Oct 21, 2022
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Mangalorean
United Nations: The international community should step up efforts to promote women’s participation in conflict-prevention and peacebuilding, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said.
DRC: Congo Improves Extractive Sector Transparency but More Needed – Anti-Graft Body
Oct 21, 2022
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Reuters
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has made progress in implementing transparency in its extractive mining sector but needs to do more in publishing contracts…
South Sudan: Devastation in South Sudan Following Fourth Year of Historic Floods
Oct 21, 2022
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging international support for humanitarian efforts in South Sudan in the face of record-breaking rains and floods for a…
Afghanistan: Afghan Farmers Resorting to Poppy Cultivation for Survival
Oct 21, 2022
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Asian News International
Amid severe economic crisis in Afghanistan, millions of destitute Afghan farmers and labourers have turned to the cultivation of opium poppies, the Office of the…
Climate Change: Refugees Flee Conflict Sparked by Climate Change in Central Africa
Oct 21, 2022
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Willem Marx, PBS
The climate crisis is now a reality worldwide, but it's nowhere more apparent than the parched landscapes of northern Africa. Thousands are on the move…
Information Challenges for Humanitarian Response to Climate Shocks in Fragile Settings
Oct 21, 2022
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Anniek Barnhoorn and Karen Meijer
As climate change intensifies, humanitarian organizations and their field operations will need a better understanding of how it interacts with conflict and displacement dynamics, as…
Fragility, Climate Change, and the Uncertain Lives of Agro-Pastoralist Women and Girls in East Africa
Oct 20, 2022
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Holly A. Ritchie, Open Global Rights
Aside from the political and social pressures that agro-pastoralist women and girls face, now they must add an urgent one: climate change.
Colombia: In Colombia, a New President Faces Old Environmental Challenges
Oct 20, 2022
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David Tarazona, Mongabay
Forest loss is just one of the many issues highlighted by experts, environmental organizations and former officials interviewed for this article, which analyzes the challenges…
Colombia: Colombia’s Coca Crops Grew to ‘Historic Levels’ Last Year: UN
Oct 20, 2022
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Al Jazeera
Colombian lands planted with coca, the plant from which cocaine is made, reached their highest levels in two decades last year, a United Nations agency…
Afghanistan: Clash over Land Leaves 3 Dead, 5 Injured in Ghazni
Oct 20, 2022
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Wahidullah Jumazada, Pajhwok Afghan News
Three people were killed and five others wounded after two tribes clashed over a land dispute in southern Ghazni province, local officials said.
Russian Attacks on Ukrainian Utility Infrastructure: Water and Power
Oct 20, 2022
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Brent Stricker
After withdrawing from much of the territory it occupied in Kharkov Oblast, the Russian military has turned to a new strategy of attacking civilian infrastructure, such…
Liberia: FDA Managers Issue Illegal Timber Export Permits
Oct 18, 2022
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James Harding Giahyue, FrontPage Africa
The Managing Director of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) Mike Doryen and top managers of the agency award export permits to logging companies outside of…
Africa: High-Level Dialogue Deliberated Solutions for Gender Equality and Climate Resilience in Africa
Oct 18, 2022
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Madeline Wong
Climate change harms women disproportionately, exposing social and gender inequalities across the globe. At the same time, women are essential for transforming food systems that…
Dangerous Forces: The Protection of Nuclear Power Plants in Armed Conflict
Oct 18, 2022
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Abby Zeith and Eirini Giorgou
As the international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine drags on, the international community continues to sound the alarm about the significant risks of a…
Bring Women to the Centre of Peace-building
Oct 18, 2022
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Sima Bahous
The world today is facing a horrendous range of conflicts. We are seeing military coups, seizures of land by force, and explosion of rivalries into…
Using Gender Sensitive Data to Inform Climate Security Planning
Oct 18, 2022
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Steve Recca and Maryruth B. Priebe
There is a growing consensus at the national and grassroots levels that women must be engaged as leaders and essential contributors in responding to the…
Remote and Multiple Locations: Temporary Director Peace & Conflict-TSU
Oct 18, 2022
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when…
USA: Program Officer, Climate, Environment, and Conflict
Oct 18, 2022
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US Institute of Peace
Peace is the commitment. The United States Institute of Peace represents the American people’s shared values and commitment to peace worldwide. USIP knows that Peace…
DRC: Chief of Party - USAID’s Sustainable Water and Sanitation Systems Activity
Oct 18, 2022
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…
Sudan: Project Director – Peacebuilding/P2P
Oct 18, 2022
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Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need…
Bangladesh: Head of Programming I
Oct 18, 2022
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Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives…