The threat of further attacks and protests in the lead-up to what were already expected to be contentious presidential, regional and legislative elections in the DRC on Dec. 23 is worrying global health leaders.
Considerable integration has occurred at the field level, but the turf battles and responsibility issues remain contentious at regional offices, and especially at the Washington Office level.
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The concept of being truly net positive water is contentious, but Veolia's regional energy manager and project manager, Matthew Lee, explains it as "exporting more treated water from a site than the amount of potable water taken in".
A growing number of these resolutions are adopted by consensus, reflecting a greater willingness to respond to grave violations; when votes are called on contentious country situations, cross-regional coalitions of democracies are often in the lead.
With its inherent neutrality, the roundtable seeks to facilitate dialogue among often-contentious groups in these regional meetings.
Guinea's parties draw support mainly from ethnic and regional bases, so a contentious result could open divisions across the country.
The most contentious issue is the creation of regional transmission organizations to supervise the grid throughout the country, imposing uniformity on a system that has a few strong regional groups, a few weak ones, and several regions with no groups at all.
A "limited, regional" nuclear war between contentious neighbors India and Pakistan, involving the use of 100 Hiroshima sized nuclear weapons, would have devastating effects on the global climate.
But offshore processing and regional resettlements have been highly contentious.
