Southern and East African leaders gave military commanders five days to give technical direction on an immediate ceasefire
​South Sudan’s warring parties will hold talks in Addis Ababa on Thursday, in a bid to salvage a stalled peace deal
The November visit comes as unprecedented numbers of Rohingya flee into neighbouring Bangladesh because of increasing communal violence.
Peace talks aimed at ending over three months of civil war in South Sudan have been paused until the end of April, say rebels.
Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will meet representatives of the warring sides in Syria separately for the first few days to increase pressure on them.
The first round of peace talks has ended with no progess made on ending the civil war or commitment from the govt to return to the negotiating table.
Syria: The long road to finding peace after years of war.
Peace talks between the government of the DRC and M23 rebels were suspended again even after the UN pressed for progress in the troubled negotiations.
India and Pakistan have held talks on peace and security issues, part of efforts to stabilise the region as the US begins its exit from Afghanistan.
Amending a proposed Arab peace initiative to win Israeli support for the plan is not a viable option, said Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to reassure Egypt about his commitment to Middle East peace talks on Monday.
Rebels blamed government forces on Friday for the death of a guerrilla leader’s daughter, saying her death made a resumption of peace talks impossible
China Premier Wen Jiabao made an overture to Taiwan on Thursday, saying Beijing was ready to create the conditions needed to reach a peace agreement.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire with Israel.
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/ 18 December 2008
DRC rebels and government negotiators resumed peace talks on Thursday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after a week-long break.
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/ 8 December 2008
Rebels opened peace negotiations with a government delegation on Monday in their first direct talks on ending the conflict in eastern DRC.
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/ 16 September 2008
Israel’s embattled Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, still believes a peace deal with the Palestinians is possible by year-end.
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/ 16 September 2008
The Central African Republic (CAR) and a leading rebel group came closer to drafting a peace deal in talks that resumed in Gabon on Monday.
Somalia’s government has formally signed a peace deal with some opposition figures, United Nations officials said on Tuesday.
There is still some jostling over Mugabe’s political future between Zanu-PF hawks and doves, as the document remains unsigned.
Mugabe is a bad man. Make no mistake. But who is to say that FW de Klerk or PW Botha or any of their Cabinet ministers were saints?
Mugabe said that negotiation was a different game which required compromise, ”Unlike in card games in negotiation you must be ready for compromise”
Zimbabwe’s latest moves towards a compromise will show other tyrants how to win elections by losing.
Mugabe’s friends in Africa have dwindled in the wake of the violent presidential election run-off, while industrial confidence and capacity suffer.
President Thabo Mbeki has played a less than honest role in the Zimbabwe crisis. The debate rages on about what he is playing at in Zimbabwe.