Unified action led by states must follow South Africa’s stand against Israel to stop the killings in Gaza and Western-backed impunity
The attack claimed more than 1 200 lives, while more than 41 000 people, the majority civilians, have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza
The Nobel peace prize winner said the world needs to stand up against oppression wherever it takes place
First, they took away people’s dreams of democracy and peace. Now the men with guns are looting and occupying their homes
Troops were sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2001 as part of the UN peacekeeping mission that became an offensive against rebels
Following international outrage over a strike on a UN school in the Gaza Strip, Israel has said it will temporarily cease its attacks in some areas.
Israel has extended the 12-hour truce by four hours after international powers called on it and Palestinian militants to extend the ceasefire.
South Sudan has sent troops to secure a UN base which was attacked by gunmen on Thursday, who killed at least 48 people.
Violence in the Central African Republic has uprooted nearly a million people, a fifth of the population, and is hampering aid efforts.
Syria has been accused of killing at least 95 civilians and destroying hundreds of houses in Idlib, in a last-minute dash before the ceasefire was called.
Previous ceasefire deals after earlier rounds of fighting have often got off to a slow start with guns falling silent within a day or two.
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/ 12 November 2010
The south Sudanese army accused the north’s troops of provoking it, with the intention of breaking a ceasefire agreement between the two.
Sudan and Darfur’s main rebel group signed a ceasefire agreement on Tuesday.
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/ 23 February 2010
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is expected to sign a ceasefire deal in Doha with a key rebel group, hopefully ending the conflict in Sudan.
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/ 26 January 2009
The European Commission announced on Monday that it was providing €58-million in humanitarian aid to vulnerable Palestinians this year.
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/ 21 January 2009
Israeli troops completed on Wednesday their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip after a 22-day offensive against the Islamist Hamas movement.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire with Israel.
Gaza residents savoured a weekend of calm after months of bloodshed in the Palestinian enclave as a tenuous truce with Israel entered its second day.