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Sudan’s warring generals agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting as part of efforts to establish a cease-fire and initiate political talks to end the country’s devastating war, an African regional bloc said Sunday. Meanwhile, Sudan’s government ordered the expulsion of 15 diplomats from the United...

The Philippine government will resume peace talks with the country’s communist rebels, in a bid to end decades of civil strife. Authorities will re-engage with the New People’s Army (NPA), the military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, for the first time in six years, both parties and...

A humanitarian pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas will be extended by two days, mediator Qatar and Hamas say, hours before an initial four-day truce in Gaza had been set to expire. “The State of Qatar announces that, as part of the ongoing mediation, an agreement has been reached to extend...

Germany's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, was in Armenia to discuss tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan took control of in September. She advocated launching a new round of negotiations. The German Foreign Minister traveled to the southern Caucasus on Friday, beginning her...

A peace deal to end the fighting in Tigray was brokered in South Africa by the African Union on 2 November last year. The war, which also drew in Eritrean forces, inflicted terrible damage on the region. Ethiopian Finance Minister Ahmed Shide recently estimated the cost of reconstruction at $20...

Talks between Sudan’s warring factions will resume Thursday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a focus on securing access for humanitarian aid to reach beleaguered civilians, according to senior U.S. State Department officials. The United States and Saudi Arabia have brokered multiple cease-fires between...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he's willing to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan by the end of the year. "We must move steadily towards peace," Pashinyan said during an address to the European Parliament on October 17. "To do this, political will is necessary, and I have that...

Colombia's government and the country's largest group of dissident former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels on Sunday suspended offensive actions and celebrated the start of a peace process meant to end the group's role in almost six decades of internal conflict, the rebel group...

Ethiopia told the United Nations on Saturday it wanted quicker implementation of a peace deal in Tigray, including on disarmament of former rebels. Ethiopia's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in November last year reached an accord in Pretoria that has largely halted a...

A delegation of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis returned to Sanaa on Tuesday after five days of talks in Saudi Arabia. Riyadh on Wednesday praised the "positive results" of the negotiations with the rebels without releasing many details on the discussions to end the war tearing Yemen apart. The...