7 October 2022
A man who tried against all odds to build a successful business on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border was killed in fighting last month. Matisa Nadyrov told Eurasianet of his dreams just a few months ago.
5 October 2022
They were arbitrarily detained for three months for protesting against a new military camp in their village.
Main photo: Lao soldiers and villagers are shown in a disputed area in Vientiane's Naxaithong district, March 25, 2022.
The Lao military arbitrarily detained five land dispute protesters for
22 September 2022
Conflicts have intensified across the former Soviet Union, now in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. It’s a worrying and disillusioning development for the region.
15 September 2022
Following the latest round of disengagement of Indian and Chinese soldiers in Eastern Ladakh, elected representatives in the region and military experts have vastly different takes on the development, with representatives saying that India has now lost its grazing fields and military experts
25 August 2022
Maasai are being evicted from a Tanzanian wildlife paradise to make way for neocolonial land grabs by the Dubai royal family. The reason? The right to hunt unhindered for the next 30 years.
Indigenous Maasai, widely acknowledged as exceptional wildlife conservationists, are being dispossessed of
28 July 2022
Karamoja, Uganda: Karamoja is one of the poorest regions in Uganda with a poverty rate of 66%, more than three times the national poverty rate
![Carte de la concession attribuée à Bois Rouge. [EIC/OpenFacto].](/sites/default/files/styles/large_480x480_/public/news-items/news/carte-768x543_0.png?itok=5KVvm28b)
27 July 2022
Une entreprise, liée aux mercenaires russes de Wagner, a mis la main depuis février 2021 sur une immense parcelle de forêt en Centrafrique. Ils ne paient pas de taxes, sont en lien avec le pouvoir. Libre à eux d’exploiter le bois presque comme ils l’entendent. Enquête autour d’une nouvelle activité
20 July 2022
A delegation of Rastriya Ekata Abhiyan, led by its President Binay Yadav, handed over the memo to the Minister on Tuesday in Kathmandu.
(Main photo: Sunlight illuminates a part of Kathmandu valley in Nepal. Reuters / Representational image)
A civic group in Nepal has submitted a memorandum to
14 July 2022
Main photo: Malaysia has argued that no one else has a right over Sabah, which is at the centre of a claim by the heirs of the late sultan of Sulu. (Bernama pic)
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has been given a reprieve in the US$14.9 billion (RM63.5 billion) claim over a centuries-old land deal.
14 July 2022
Main photo - Officers preparing land certificates to be awarded to residents at Tawaeli Sub-district Office, North Palu, Central Sulawesi, Friday (October 23, 2020). ANTARA PHOTO/Mohamad Hamzah/wsj).
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Proper handling of land conflicts occurring in various regions is crucial to
7 July 2022
Main photo: The Chinese fence inside Myanmar’s territory in October 2021. / NamKhamnews
China has cut off electricity to a border village in northern Shan State for nearly nine months due to boundary disputes, according to residents.
23 June 2022
Tensions are spiking once again in the chronically turbulent eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The M23 rebel movement — widely thought to be long dead — has dramatically resurrected. And DRC president Félix Tshisekedi has accused Rwandan president Paul Kagame of again backing it with