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South Sudan ‘s vice president said Thursday that peace talks in neighboring Kenya have failed to acknowledge the country’s peace agreement established in 2018, alleging a new draft agreement is aimed at replacing the original peace deal.…
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Egypt’s plans to host a conference in coming weeks that will bring together rival Sudanese political forces has raised hopes of restoring peace in the conflict-racked country, according to analysts. The government of Gen. Abdel Fattah…
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday named a former Colombian foreign minister as his personal envoy to scope out the chances of reviving talks to resolve Cyprus’ ethnic divide, an issue that has defied international diplomacy…
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Saudi Arabia and the US, in partnership with the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, released a statement on talks between Sudan’s warring parties on Sunday, aimed at ending a conflict that has been raging for…
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Delegates from Sudan’s regular army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces will return to peace talks in Jeddah on Thursday as their six-month war continues. Fighting broke out in mid-April over plans to integrate the two forces…
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Saudi Arabia on Wednesday praised the “positive results” of negotiations with Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they visited the Kingdom for peace talks. The five-day talks, which represented the highest-level, public negotiations with the…
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Sudan’s government refused Monday to join a regional meeting aimed at ending nearly three months of brutal fighting, accusing Kenya, which chaired the talks, of favoring the rival paramilitaries. A power struggle between Sudanese army…
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Protecting the rights of people in southern Yemen is a key aim of talks to end the country’s war, Yemen’s southern separatist leader said on Monday. Maj. Gen. Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, president of the Southern Transitional Council and deputy…
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The UN Security Council on Tuesday strongly condemned recent Houthi escalations of the conflict in Yemen, including an attack on senior government officials in Taiz. Members urged the Iran-backed militia to halt the provocations and…
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that Russia’s war in Ukraine is “unwinnable,” as he repeated his plea for the conflict to shift from the battlefield to the negotiating table. “That is inevitable,” he said at the…
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