Tag: ceasefire

Elaborating on the two-week August ceasefire between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its eastern neighbour Rwanda, South African International Relations and Co-operation...

The United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and MONUSCO, the world body mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) all expressed appreciation for...

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera on Friday declared a unilateral cessation of fighting against armed groups, saying he hoped it would lead to...

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed rejected US calls for a unilateral ceasefire in the northern Tigray region and dismissed allegations of ethnic cleansing, according...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis halted military operations nationwide in support of UN efforts to end a five-year war that killed over...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants warring parties across the world to lay down weapons in support of the bigger battle against COVID-19: the common enemy now threatening all humankind. “The fury of the virus illustrates the...

A prison in Tripoli was shelled injuring several people, its warden said, as bombardment intensified despite pleas for a ceasefire to tackle the coronavirus. The...

An immediate nationwide ceasefire is needed in Syria to enable an “all-out-effort” to stamp out the coronavirus and prevent it ravaging a beleaguered population,...

Renewed bombardments were reported by both sides in Libya after a pause in fighting when the main combatants agreed to a ceasefire because of...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by phone with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, a German government spokesman said , urging him to move to...

A Libyan military commander waging an offensive to capture Tripoli is committed to a ceasefire, Germany said, in an apparent advance for efforts to...

Turkey said it was too early to say whether a ceasefire in Libya collapsed after Khalifa Haftar, commander of eastern Libyan forces, failed to...

A ceasefire in Libya initiated by Turkey and Russia saw a lull in heavy fighting and air strikes, though both warring factions accuse each...

Turkey and Russia urged Libya’s warring parties to declare a ceasefire on Sunday as warring factions clashed and carried out air strikes in a...

Libya’s internationally recognised government, facing a campaign by eastern troops to take the capital, accepted a United Nations proposal for a ceasefire during the...

Sudanese and South Sudanese officials agreed with the leader of an alliance of armed factions operating along their joint border to extend a ceasefire...

All warring groups in Libya must commit to a ceasefire and return to UN-led mediation, the European Union said, calling the situation a threat...

France’s President Emmanuel Macron called for a ceasefire in the month-long battle for Tripoli after fighting hit a migrant detention centre. Foreign powers are aghast...

Both sides in the conflict in Yemen have largely stuck to a ceasefire agreed last month, but substantial progress is still needed before more...

South Sudan's main rebel force SPLM-IO accused government forces of attacking their defensive positions a day after both sides signed a peace...

Armed groups vying for control of the Libyan capital agreed to set up a mechanism to "consolidate" a recently agreed ceasefire, the...

A ceasefire was signed between armed factions fighting over the Libyan capital, the United Nations said, after more than a week of...

An Ethiopian rebel group declared a unilateral ceasefire, the latest dissident movement to aim for an end to hostilities in the wake...

An Ethiopian rebel group declared a unilateral ceasefire after parliament removed it from a list of banned terrorist groups as part of...

Sudan extended until year-end a three-year-old unilateral ceasefire with rebels fighting in three parts of the country, the presidential palace said, as...

South Sudan's army massacred civilians, burned children alive and gang-raped women after a supposed ceasefire with rebels in December, according to reports...

Sudan extended a unilateral ceasefire with rebels in its three main conflict areas for an additional three months, until the end of...

Nigeria's government is in talks with Islamist militant group Boko Haram about a possible ceasefire with the ultimate aim of securing a...

The African Union is open to imposing sanctions on leaders violating ceasefires in South Sudan, joining a growing chorus of officials who...

An internationally backed ceasefire monitoring team in South Sudan has asked the UN Security Council to say whether leaders violating a peace...

Britain is monitoring a ceasefire agreed last month between South Sudan's warring parties and working with regional partners to identify individuals guilty...

Sudan has extended a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of March, state news agency SUNA reported on Thursday, citing a...

The United States, Britain and Norway have called on parties in the South Sudan conflict and their field commanders to stop violating...

Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of December, state news agency SUNA reported days after the United...

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and the divided country's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar committed to a conditional ceasefire and to work towards...

The Syrian army said on Monday it would suspend combat operations in southern Syria until Thursday ahead of a new round of...

Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of October a decree by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said, two...

The United States, Britain and the United Nations were sceptical of South Sudan President Salva Kiir's declaration of a unilateral ceasefire, noting...

The president of war-ravaged South Sudan declared a unilateral ceasefire and promised to release political prisoners, but with no sign of a...

Sudan said on Sunday it would extend a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with rebels in the country's warring regions to six months,...

Mozambique's Renamo opposition party has extended a ceasefire for two months to allow dialogue with President Filipe Nyusi's government and reduce civilian...

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has announced a one-month extension of his unilateral ceasefire in fighting with rebels in the country's war...

Just 10 people left a besieged neighbourhood in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday after forces surrounding the area said...

Somalia's prime minister said at the weekend he had secured a ceasefire between two warring regions in the Horn of Africa nation,...

A week-old ceasefire between the forces of two semi-autonomous regions of Somalia broke down at the weekend as fighting over a disputed...

The head of the Islamist militant group Ansar Dine has agreed to cease attacks in Mali that have killed dozens of civilians,...

The Syrian military said on Thursday a unilateral ceasefire backed by Russia had come into force to allow people to leave besieged...

A truce in the conflict in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta is in danger of being derailed by anger at the military over...

A Nigerian militant group, which has claimed a wave of attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta, said it was ready...

Talks to secure a lasting ceasefire in Sudan's three warring regions under a road map for peace have collapsed less than a...