Afghanistan has vast mineral wealth but faces steep challenges to tap it

For Afghanistan, its resources could mean a source of long-term foreign investment, skill-building and infrastructure expansion. But a major …

Why are vanilla growers in Madagascar struggling to survive?

Farmers in Madagascar, world's largest vanilla-exporting country, live in poverty and constant fear of losing their crop to theft

Climate change, conflict: What is fuelling the Lake Chad crisis

Climate change, religious conlficts and economic crisis have taken toll on people and environment 

Manipur: the bejewelled land shrouded in conflicts, resource scarcity

Sense of deprivation, lack of basic necessities and fear of falling out of government's favour perpetuate ethnic clashes

Slavery and war are tightly connected – but we had no idea just how much until we crunched the data

In 2016, the United Nations Security Council named modern slavery a serious concern in areas affected by armed conflict

COVID-19, climate crisis: 7.8 million across east Africa pushed to starvation

Floods and locust outbreak in east African region lead to increased food shortages, where 34 million people are acutely food insecure

India removed from annual UN list of countries where children are impacted by armed conflict

India has taken measures to protect children, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, according to the UN  

Food prices in Nigeria have shot through the roof. But is the pandemic to blame?

A peculiar situation for Nigeria was that the food price increases varied across the country. Some states felt the hit of food price inflation …

Environment is one of wars’ greatest victims

Illegal logging by US-backed warlords and wood harvesting by refugees caused more than one-third of Afghanistan’s forests to vanish between …

Children’s involvement in conflict cause of worry: India

Indian ambassador to UN proposes child protection advisers in peacekeeping operations to ensure safe return of children affected by armed conflict

Climate change fuelling conflict in Lake Chad Basin: Report

Shrinking natural resources due to adverse weather heightening tensions, says human rights group

Sudan conflict fallout: Over 1,200 children have died in country amid healthcare crisis, says UN

Children died from suspected measles and malnutrition; those under five account for over three-quarters of all deaths

Taliban seize Herat and assault nearby dam that provides water and power to hundreds of thousands of Afghans

The Afghan-India Friendship Dam, the main source of electricity and irrigation water for hundreds of thousands of people in western …

War in Sudan enters its breadbasket, threatens to worsen hunger, malnutrition

A third of Sudanese in need of emergency food aid; country faces the greatest displacement crisis in history

Sudan, a country displaced

One of Africa’s largest and most populous countries is on the brink of famine after a year of war between its Army and main paramilitary