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Darfur: UN-African Union envoy urges combatants to accept that continued violence is a ‘dead end’

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Acting Joint Special Representative and Joint Chief Mediator of UNAMID Aïchatou Mindaoudou.

Heavy Casualties Reported in Ambush on Kenyan Police

Gunmen in northern Kenya have killed at least 34 police officers who were hunting for cattle rustlers. Kenyan police say the officers were ambushed Saturday as their truck drove through the remote northern Baragoi district.

Israel Fires into Syria, Violence Also Flares on Gaza Border

Israel fired a missile into Syria in what the military described as a “warning shot,” after a stray mortar shell fired from Syria landed near an Israeli military post in the Golan Heights. It was the first time Israel fired into Syria since the civil...

Guinean Government to Investigate Killing of Treasury Official

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