{"id":242271,"date":"2026-08-26T20:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-analysis-cop17-top-issues-dividing-shaping-ongoing-negotiations-in-mongolia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:16:37","slug":"nigeria-analysis-cop17-top-issues-dividing-shaping-ongoing-negotiations-in-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-analysis-cop17-top-issues-dividing-shaping-ongoing-negotiations-in-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Analysis &#8211; COP17: Top Issues Dividing, Shaping Ongoing Negotiations in Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">As UNCCD COP17 enters its final days in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, negotiators remain divided over a proposed global drought instrument, finance for land restoration, rangeland management and the participation of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">It is the 10th day of the ongoing two-week negotiations at the 17th session of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unccd.int\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification<\/a><\/strong> (UNCCD COP17), with the conference entering its final and most critical phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Wednesday has been designated Land&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608260487.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As UNCCD COP17 enters its final days in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, negotiators remain divided over a proposed global drought instrument, finance for land restoration, rangeland management and the participation of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. It is the 10th day of the ongoing two-week negotiations at the 17th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6551,55280,6895,8008,55281,3762,257,4687,393,9242,17897,254,7319],"class_list":["post-242271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-analysis","tag-cop17","tag-dividing","tag-issues","tag-mongolia","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-ongoing","tag-shaping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}