Peace Negotiations
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 07:53
After months of delay, peace talks between the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and M23 rebels are back on, at the urging of regional leaders. But analysts remain sceptical that a truce can be achieved after more than a year and a half of intermittent fighting in eastern DRC's North Kivu Province.
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 07:42
UN chief says Congolese and UN troops beat rebel fighters in clashes, lifting threat of attack against city of Goma.
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 08:30
The delicate peace process has taken on an additional urgency for Turkey as Kurdish militias fighting in neighbouring Syria's civil war push for greater autonomy for parts of northern Syria, just over the border.
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 07:57
He was charged with "harming national security by providing militants with locations of security forces in Sinai," Reuters reported.
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 07:40
Mozambique's bid to end a conflict with former rebels that has unnerved investors hit an impasse on Wednesday after the group's leader refused to leave his bush camp for talks.
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 07:27
Newly appointed U.S. Co-Chair of OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick stated in Yerevan today that "political will and mutual concessions are needed from all the sides" to settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 07:00
Residents of a neighbourhood in the capital, Bangui, at the weekend clashed with Séléka over alleged excesses.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 08:17
Government officials, non-state actors, including regional, international and civil society organizations rose from their meeting in Accra, Ghana, calling for the establishment in Africa of functional national infrastructures for peace with institutional and financial autonomy through the creation of National Peace Funds as one of its components.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 07:24
Central African Republic has entered into phase two of its civil unrest, as forces loyal to the ousted president embark on guerrilla warfare that has claimed more than 80 lives in two days.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 07:15
A statement issued by the mediators trying to resolve the latest fighting in Congo says the two sides have made "significant progress" since the talks in Uganda began last week.