The government and rebels have traded accusations of breaking the ceasefire deal intended to calm violence in South Sudan.
President Salva Kiir’s government and the rebels backing Riek Machar have signed a ceasefire deal, a "critical first step" in peace negotiations.
Civil war looms after rebels spurn a proposal to end the violence raging across South Sudan.
Rebel group turned opposition party Renamo has pulled out of Mozambique’s peace deal after four decades on the losing side. Here’s how they got there.
What happened to all the girls who fought in Liberia’s brutal civil war and are now grown-ups? How do they get on with their lives?
Liberia will hold a constitutional referendum on Tuesday to determine the country’s readiness for its second post-war election.
Military intervention in Côte d’Ivoire will not necessarily trigger a civil war, presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara said on Wednesday.
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Messages of ”Viva Angola” and ”Proud to be Angolan” in Luanda mark the war-scarred Southern African nation’s rising international presence.
Somali insurgent movement al-Shabaab said on Friday it had imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Kismayu after a rare attack near one of its bases.
The UN said on Friday that the number of deaths in Sri Lanka’s civil war in recent months was ”unacceptably high”, but declined to give figures.
For die-hard followers, the commander who led a terror-driven Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka still lives, despite evidence to the contrary.
Terrified residents fled the Somali capital on Saturday, following a day of fierce fighting that left at least 31 people dead.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Saturday toured Sri Lanka’s largest war displaced persons camp, amid concerns for 300 000 Tamils left homeless.
The first accounts of the suffering begin to emerge from Sri Lanka’s internment camps, where as many as a quarter of a million Tamils are being held.
As Sri Lanka declared victory in one of the world’s most intractable wars, the EU and US urged its government to reach out to its Tamil population.
The leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was shot dead on Monday while trying to flee advancing troops, defence officials said.
Tamil Tiger rebels launched suicide attacks against Sri Lankan troops fighting on Sunday to deliver a death blow to the separatists.
Doctors and aides abandoned the only hospital in Sri Lanka’s war zone amid unrelenting shell attacks, a health official said on Thursday.
Thousands of Sri Lankans under fire waded across a lagoon to escape the island’s war zone, where the military has surrounded Tiger rebels.
Satellite images of Sri Lanka’s war zone indicate the government has shelled the area in recent days, a rights group said on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels accused government forces of killing at least 47 civilians on Tuesday in an artillery and mortar attack on a hospital.
The UN condemned a ”bloodbath” in Sri Lanka on Monday after two days of shelling that a government doctor said killed 1 000 civilians.
Tamil separatist rebels on Tuesday accused the Sri Lankan military of breaking assurances that it would refrain from using heavy weaponry.
Sri Lanka must put in practice its latest pledge not to use heavy weapons as it fights the Tamil Tiger rebels, the UN said on Monday.
Sri Lanka on Monday said heavy combat was over in a last pocket of territory held by the LTTE and it was shifting its focus to rescuing civilians.
The Sri Lankan army on Tuesday seized more territory from the Tamil Tigers as the rebels ignored a deadline to surrender, the Defence Ministry said.
Sri Lankan security forces resumed their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the island on Wednesday following a brief ceasefire.
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers said on Tuesday they were ready to negotiate a ceasefire and restart peace talks to halt decades of ethnic bloodshed.
Heavy shelling by the Sri Lankan army of a designated safe area has left 129 civilians dead and 282 wounded, a pro-rebel website said on Thursday.
The myth that the Tigers were unbeatable has been shattered with a victory over the separatists inevitable, Sri Lanka’s president was quoted as saying
More than 23 000 civilians escaped last month from a war zone in Sri Lanka’s north, where the military appears close to crushing rebels.
Sri Lanka’s navy rescued more than 640 people who fled the war zone in a clutch of small boats as Tiger rebels fired, the military said on Wednesday.