Conflict
Monday, July 21, 2014 - 06:41
South Sudanese rebels have launched an offensive to retake a key town near the border with Ethiopia in what the United Nations said was a clear violation of a truce agreement.
Monday, July 21, 2014 - 06:38
Seven people were killed when gunmen attacked a bus at the Kenyan coast where previous attacks had left 87 people dead, the Kenya Red Cross said.
Monday, July 21, 2014 - 06:35
Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 100 people and hoisted their black and white flag over a north-eastern town left undefended by Nigeria's military, according to a civil defence spokesman and a human rights advocate.
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:18
Senator Leahy commends Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on peace process. He notes "the slow pace of Colombia's justice system in holding accountable members of security forces and paramilitaries who have been implicated in massacres of civilians and other human rights crimes" and asserts that U.S. support for Colombia remains strong.
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 08:37
At least 5,576 Iraqi civilians have been killed this year in violence, the U.N. said in the most detailed account yet of the impact of months of unrest culminating in advances by Sunni militants led by the al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State, formerly known as ISIL, across the north.
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 08:02
Desde el 16 de agosto, y durante por lo menos cinco ciclos de conversaciones, las víctimas serán escuchadas en Cuba. La aplicación de los criterios para la selección de las comitivas de víctimas estará a cargo de "la Organización de Naciones Unidas en Colombia y el Centro de Pensamiento y Seguimiento al Proceso de Paz, en consulta con diferentes asociaciones de víctimas del conflicto.”
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 06:54
Deeply concerned by the escalating and increasingly interlinked crises in Sudan and South Sudan, where violence is sparking refugee flows and disrupting harvests again this year, the top United Nations relief official warned today that the humanitarian situation is deteriorating for hundreds of thousands of people in both countries.
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 06:46
Fifteen years after a peace accord called for its creation, Burundi is finally to set up a Peace and Reconciliation Commission (PRC) to examine crimes committed since 1962. But the controversies and disagreements that have dogged the mechanism since it was first mooted continue to reverberate.
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 07:56
“Me expresó su total disponibilidad a ayudar en lo que sea necesario, ya sea en manifestaciones políticas o intervenciones directas”, dijo el mandatario colombiano al finalizar la reunión.
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 07:12
The use of force will not resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan told Trend on July 17. The embassy made a statement, commenting on the Armenian media reports on the hostage-taking of two Azerbaijanis and launching a criminal case against them, as well as, the killing of another Azerbaijani by the Armenian separatists in the Shaplar village of Kalbajar District.