November 17 Somali pirates captured Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star carrying over 2 million barrels of oil destined for the USA. This is probably a record bounty as well as the farthest from their home shores the Somali pirates have boarded a ship. At first I didn’t even think of posting it here. Although it…
Month: November 2008
Congo fighting is about water, timber and diamonds
“The natural environment enjoys protection under Protocol 1 of the Geneva Conventions. But this protection is often violated during war and armed conflict. Water wells are polluted, crops torched, forests cut down, soils poisoned, and animals killed, all in order to gain military advantage. […] We have seen how environmental damage and the collapse of…
Seminar discusses poverty reduction in areas of conflict
The seminar aimed to address poverty reduction for communities affected by a legacy of war debris such as bombs, mines and other explosive remnants of war. 33 years after the war that dropped – afaik – more bombs on their country than were used in the entire 2nd world war – the Vietnamese appears to…
Drought
Drought land ‘will be abandoned’ “In many ways [water] is the most dramatic expression of mismanagement of natural or nature-based assets […] The day a person or a community is bereft of water is the day that your chance of even the most basic life or livelihood is gone and economic activity seeps away. Unchecked…