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India plans mega-dam to counter China water fears
AFP, Published on 30/09/2025
» RIEW (INDIA) - On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam -- India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water.
Karabakh refugees see little hope for Azerbaijan peace
AFP, Published on 27/12/2023
» NOYAKERT, Armenia - Before fleeing the advancing Azerbaijani troops for Armenia, Suren Martirosyan glanced back one last time at his fruit garden in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the momentary vision has haunted him ever since.
New alliances form in Myanmar struggle
AFP, Published on 19/04/2023
» At dusk in northern Myanmar, fighters from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) patrol their frontlines and mark the positions of junta troops, their decades-long conflict with the military fraught with new risks since the coup two years ago.
Chinese-funded harbour in Sierra Leone stirs environmental fears
AFP, Published on 04/06/2021
» FREETOWN - Sierra Leoneans are protesting a planned industrial harbour in a lush village in the West African country over concerns the Chinese-financed project will destroy pristine rainforest and pollute the ocean.
Hunger stalks southern Africa as climate crisis deepens
AFP, Published on 12/02/2020
» BUHERA, Zimbabwe: Just under a year ago, Alice Posha fled her home in the middle of the night and then watched as it was swept away by floods.