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3 Nov 2020 KATHMANDU
Himalaya Are Icy Frontier In New Cold War
For centuries, the Himalaya served as any icy frontier between empires, but even though because of connectivity it is no longer a barrier, the world’s highest mountain range has become a climate and geopolitical hotspot. Recent violent clashes between India and China in Ladakh and a border dispute between India and Nepal over a Himalayan valley have added to existing hostility between India and Pakistan as well as friction between China and Bhutan over Doklam.
3 Nov 2020 WASHINGTON DC
USAID Support For Flood-stricken Sudan
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), hasannounced an additional $60 million in humanitarian assistance to respond to severe flooding in the Republic of Sudan. With this new funding, USAID will work with non-governmental organizations and international partners to help address urgent needs caused by the historic flooding, which has destroyed thousands of acres of crops, homes, and schools across Sudan, and left nearly a million people in need of humanitarian aid...
2 Nov 2020 BAKU
Water's Role In Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict
Water shortages and the risk of drought have long been major sources of concern in Azerbaijan, which is heavily dependent for its supplies of water for drinking and irrigation on the Kura-Araks river basin, shared with Georgia and Armenia. In fact, one of the first moves that followed Azerbaijan’s reclaiming of territory as a result of the ongoing weeks of fierce fighting in Karabakh was the announcement of a tender for the maintenance and amelioration of water facilities in the former occupied lands...
2 Nov 2020 BAKU
Strategic Reservoir Exchanges Hands In Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
In the Martakert region of Nagorno-Karabakh, fighting has continued despite the promises of ceasefires. The zone is of strategic importance because it contains the Sugovushan reservoir - or the Madagiz reservoir to the Armenians. The dam was built to provide water supplies for farmers living in the Azerbaijani populated Terter region...
15 Oct 2020 BAKU, Azerbaijan
Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: Mingachevir Dam Targeted (Reports)
The Azerbaijani Prosecutor General’s Office said 11 October that Armenian armed forces had carried out a missile attack on the Mingachevir Hydroelectric Power Plant in Azerbaijan, Russian state media outlet TASS reported."At about 04:00 local time (3:00 Moscow time), the Armenian armed forces carried out a missile attack on a major Azerbaijani industrial city of Mingechevir, which is 100 km away from the zone of the hostilities, and the Mingachevir Hydroelectric Power Plant located there," the prosecutors said, adding that all missiles were intercepted by Azerbaijan’s air defense forces...
12 Oct 2020 MOSCOW
Russia Finance Support For Water In Occupied Ukrainian Crimea
The Russian government will allocate more than 5 billion rubles ($64.5 mln) to resolve issues related to water supply in Crimea, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a government meeting on Thursday. Today, at a government meeting, we will allocate almost 5 billion rubles to the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol for the construction of new water supply facilities on the Crimean Peninsula and more than 870 million rubles ($11 mln) for the overhaul of water supply networks that are in emergency condition, as well as the development of additional wells," the head of the cabinet said.
12 Oct 2020 OSLO, Norway
UN World Food Programme Wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP).The Norwegian Nobel Committee said that the World Food Programme won the award "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict"...
8 Oct 2020 AS-SALIF, Yemen
Security Council Demands Access To Decaying Oil Tanker Which Threatens Yemen Freshwater Resources, Ecosystems
This news article was updated 19 OctoberThe United Nations Security Council has called on Iran-backed Houthis to give experts immediate access to the stricken SFO Safer oil tanker in the Red Sea. The tanker has been stranded and unmaintained for five years north of Yemen's port city Hodeidah.The condition of the tanker, containing an estimated 1,148,000 barrels of light crude oil and anchored 4...
7 Oct 2020 BAKU
Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: Shells Fall Close To Strategic Mingachevir Reservoir
Armenian armed forces launched a missile attack on the central Azerbaijani city of Mingachevir, which hosts the country's largest hydroelectric power and water reservoir. “Proof of Armenia's deliberate and targeted attack against critical civilian infrastructure of Azerbaijan. The missile landed in close proximity to the energy block in Mingachevir...
7 Oct 2020 Juba, South Sudan
Urgent Need For Aid To South Sudan
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking to raise $58 Million USD in additional aid to meet the crisis brought on in South Sudan due to crop infestation by locusts, the COVID-19 health crisis, and loss of crops and livestock due to heavy rainfall that is estimated to be the worst in 60 years...
4 Oct 2020 YOLA
Water Is A Tool For Peace In Lake Chad Region
Lake Chad is an extremely shallow water body in the Sahel. Its origin is unknown but it is believed to be a remnant of a former inland sea. It doesn't drain into the ocean but it has shrunk by over 90% since the 1960s due to climate change, an increase in the population and unplanned irrigation. Given the rate at which the lake is disappearing, in less than a decade it may cease to be...
1 Oct 2020 THE HAGUE, Netherlands
Human Rights And Water Security In Our Uncertain Times
The latest in a series of guest columns written for OOSKAnews and The Water Diplomat by participants in different parts of the international water community. In this article, Tobias Schmitz discusses human rights, water security and climate change in advance of a 13 October UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility high-level webinar on the subject...