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2 Aug 2019 NEW YORK NY, United States
"Early Action" Required As Drought, Conflict Threaten Hunger For 8.7 Million In Somalia and South Sudan
Severe drought in Somalia and continued violence in South Sudan are threatening more than 8.5 million people with severe food insecurity according to humanitarian agencies. As reported by OOSKAnews in May this year, failure of spring rains in Somalia have put almost 1.7 million people in acute food insecurity...
14 Aug 2019 KYIV, Ukraine
Ukraine Rejects Negotiations With Russia Over Dnieper Water Supply To Crimea
Efforts by leadership of the Russia-occupied Crimea region of Ukraine to access waters of the Dnieper River have been met with short shrift by the government of Ukraine. Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers Georgy Muradov said August 12 that Crimean officials would ask Russian leadership to initiate negotiations with Ukraine to let Dnieper River waters, which originate in Russia, into the peninsula, saying "This is not Dnieper River water belonging to Ukraine, this is our water flowing from Russian territory”, claiming that Crimea has “a right” to Dnipro water as the river’s source lies near Smolensk in Russia, and demanding “serious talks” with Kyiv...
12 Aug 2019 WASHINGTON DC, United States
Seventeen Countries Face "Extremely" High Water Stress
Widely reported new findings from the World Resources Institute (WRI) paints a disturbing picture of global water stress and concomitant risks. WRI’s water risk calculator (Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas) has been updated with data on water demand by households, industry and agriculture, and water supply from surface sources and aquifers from 1961 to 2014...
30 Jul 2019 CAIRO, Egypt
GERD: Tripartite Talks To Resume; Dam Is Defended By Israeli Weaponry
Ethiopia Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew has expressed his country’s enthusiasm to strengthen bilateral relations with Egypt and a commitment to resume negotiations on the contentious, and massive, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the River Nile. At a Cairo meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi last week, Gedu delivered a message from Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed communicating Ethiopia’s resolve to resume tripartite talks on GERD – which are expected to focus on implementation of the declaration of principles regarding water fills and operation of the dam...
3 Aug 2019 BAGHDAD, Iraq
Iraq, Turkey Meet On Dams, Shared Water Resource Imperatives
Meeting Turkish envoy Veysel Eroglu July 31 in Baghdad, Iraq President Barham Salih confirmed that the two countries’ water issues are shared priorities, and that a long-term solution that guaranteed the rights of both parties was required. Turkey and Iraq share the water of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which flow from Turkey and pass through Iraq towards the Persian Gulf...
13 Jul 2019 ROME, Italy
UNFAO: Conflict And Climate Conditions Continue To Exacerbate Food Insecurity
Variable climate conditions and persistent conflicts contine to cause high levels of food insecurity in 41 countries, with 31 of these in Africa, UNFAO has reported. The Crop Prospects and Food Situation report issued by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization July 4, relates that these countries continue to be in food deficit and in need of external assistance, a situation that has not changed in three months...
12 Aug 2019 GENEVA, Switzerland
500 Million Threatened By Desertification
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new special report on climate change and land use August 8, part of a series of such examinations authorized by the United Nations designed to assist governments in understanding the effects of climate change and necessary policy decisions...
4 Aug 2019 PHNOM PENH, Cambodia
US Secretary Of State Wades Into Mekong
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticized China's dam-building programme on the Mekong River, saying that construction has left the crucial waterway at its lowest level in a decade in Southeast Asian countries downstream, warning of "troubling trends". The Mekong River Commission has said that river levels in June and July had dropped to “among the lowest on record”...
25 Jul 2019 GENEVA, Switzerland
Biologists Demand Safeguards For Environment In Conflict
Twenty-two scientists from Europe, the United States and Africa are calling on governments support the notion of the United Nations' International Law Commission to protect the environment in armed conflict. This would make wanton destruction of megafauna a war crime. A letter supporting adoption of a convention to protect the environment “call[s] on governments to incorporate explicit safeguards for biodiversity, and to use the commission’s recommendations to finally deliver a Fifth Geneva Convention to uphold environmental protection during such confrontations...
21 Aug 2019 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Kashmir Situation Is A Water Situation, Indus Treaty Challenged
Pakistan authorities August 19 warned that release of water from an upstream dam may cause flooding in Pakistan’s Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. The Indian-administered part of the majority-Muslim region, known as Jammu and Kashmir had special status "revoked" by the Indian Government August 5, placing it under Indian control...
8 Jul 2019 SANA'A, Yemen
Rainy Season Will Exacerbate Cholera Crisis In Conflict-torn Yemen
The battle against cholera in Yemen is far from over, the Save the Children charity has warned: the first six months of 2019 have already seen more suspected cases than the whole of 2018, including 203,000 children under 15. At least 193 children have died of cholera related illnesses in the country in 2019...