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"The Ethiopian government is committed to the AU-led peace process and expressed hope that the EU would support efforts to end the conflict peacefully," the ministry quoted Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen as saying at a meeting with a visiting EU envoy. The statement...

On the frontlines of Ukrainian resistance to Russia's invading forces and in shattered cities, combatants and civilians marked Ukraine's Independence Day with defiant words and the promise of victory. In normal years a day of celebrations hailing the end of Soviet rule in 1991, this Independence Day...

Fighting erupted between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia on Wednesday, shattering a five-month truce and dealing a blow to peace efforts. Reports of fresh offensives were followed by Ethiopia's air force announcing it had downed a plane carrying weapons for the Tigray...

The head of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council Rashad al-Alimi has ordered United Arab Emirates-backed separatists to stop military operations in the country’s south. The notice issued to the head of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), and fellow council member, Aidarous al-Zubaidi, on...

Delayed talks on Chad’s future that the ruling military says are a “decisive moment” opened despite some opposition groups boycotting the gathering. More than 1,400 delegates from the military, civil society, opposition parties, trade unions, and rebel groups gathered on Saturday in the capital, N...

The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have met in Brussels for another European Union-mediated attempt to resolve lingering issues between the two wartime rivalling states that have spiked tensions in the Balkans. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, speaking before Thursday’s meeting between Serbian...

A huge explosion has ripped through a crowded mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 21 people, police say. Another 33 people were injured, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran added. Wednesday's blast occurred during evening prayers. The mosque's imam Amir Muhammad Kabuli is reported to be...

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told the UN rights chief that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh must return home to Myanmar, from where they had fled waves of violent persecution. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet...

Colombia's new high peace commissioner has traveled to Cuba to meet representatives of the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels and examine a possible restart to peace talks, President Gustavo Petro said on Thursday. Petro, who took office on Sunday and is a former member of the M-19 guerrilla...

The European Union has ​called for a "cessation of hostilities" between Armenia and Azerbaijan after several soldiers were reportedly killed during renewed clashes in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The flare-up of tensions between the two countries took place "around the Lachin corridor...