Conflict
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 12:36
The Ministers of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, and Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, and the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group discussed substantive issues to advance the peace process.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 12:23
Heavy gunfire erupted in Central African Republic's anarchic capital Friday as night fell, with civilians taking cover behind the skeletons of cars as bullets flew overhead. Rwandan peacekeepers backed by French forces later came to the scene and began firing their weapons.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 12:16
The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition (SPLM/A In Opposition) have accused the South Sudanese army of violating the cessation of hostilities agreement, less than 24 hours after its signing.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 12:10
French forces have carried out two night-time counter-terrorism operations in rebel-infested northern Mali, military sources in the west African nation said on Thursday.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 12:08
Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza urged fighters to put down their arms as she took the oath of office Thursday, even as looters pillaged Muslim neighborhoods and sectarian tensions escalated in the anarchic Central African Republic.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 12:06
The government of South Sudan and rebels loyal to the country’s ousted former vice president signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursday, holding out the prospect of peace after more than a month of fighting that has torn the new nation apart.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 12:03
In the end the peace deal couldn’t come soon enough for Riek Machar and his fighters. Whilst fighters loyal to the former South Sudan deputy president continue to hold some towns in the country’s oil-producing states, Dr Machar has found himself at a military disadvantage and isolated diplomatically.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 11:58
The New York Times and other media report that South Sudan president Salva Kiir and ex-vice president Riek Machar, and their respective forces, have signed a cease-fire in Addis Ababa. The civil war, which started in December 2013, has left thousands dead and estimates are that at least a half a million South Sudanese have been displaced in what under the best of circumstances is one of the poorest countries in the world.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 11:51
"If they are serious about the peaceful resolution, they must prepare their people for peace, but they are not doing that at all,” Schiff underscored.
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 11:44
“These are the events of war.” This is how Riek Machar, the former Vice-President of South Sudan, described the violence that has claimed thousands of lives in South Sudan in the past month. I reached Machar by satellite phone, at what he described as a secret location “in the forest.” He had escaped Juba, the capital, and gone up-country, into the home territory of his fellow Nuer people.