The signing of a peace agreement between the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in Washington has elicited mixed reactions, with the former Congolese president, Joseph Kabila, describing it as “nothing more than a trade agreement”. The deal signed on Friday demanded the “disengagement, disarmament and conditional integration” of armed groups fighting...
Orla Guerin Senior international correspondent Reuters Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, called on the group to disarm in February. After 40 years, with 40,000 people killed, and without securing a Kurdish homeland, the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, is ending its war against the Turkish state. This signals the end of one...
Steven Rosenberg BBC Russia Editor Reuters Russia has recently intensified attacks even as diplomatic steps towards peace pick up pace Last month the Trump administration proposed the idea of a 30-day comprehensive ceasefire. Ukraine agreed. Russia did not. Or rather, it came up with a long list of conditions. Instead of 30 days, the Kremlin...
Madeline Halpert BBC News Reporting fromWestern Texas Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr traveled to be with the Mennonite community after another child died of measles On an unusually crisp April day in a rural Texas town, dozens of Mennonite community members gathered alongside the nation’s top health official, Robert F...