01: Africa
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In Côte d’Ivoire, 35.000 members of the Forces Nouvelles start disarming in a process that is expected to take five and a half months. |
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UN Special Rapporteurs report intimidation, violence and torture against supporters of Zimbabwean opposition party MDC following the presidential elections. |
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The resumption of hostilities in Burundi between the army and the FNL causes the death of at least 50 people, while the exiled leaders of the group accept to consider the reactivation of the ceasefire agreement. |
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The US confirms to have perpetrated an aerial attack in the Somali city of Dusamareb, resulting in the death of the leader of the al-Shabab armed group. |
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More than 30 civilians die during clashes in the east of DR Congo between the CNDP and the Pareco Mai Mai militias. |
02: Americas
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UN independent experts make an appeal for the urgent adoption of protection measures for human rights defenders in Colombia, after a recent violence wave. |
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The president of Haiti appoints Ericq Pierre as the new primer minister. |
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The autonomy referendum that was called unilaterally by the authorities of the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz achieves the support of 85% of the population. |
03: Asia
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The Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud suspends the peace talks with the government, after the official negative to withdraw the troops from the tribal areas. |
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The government of Myanmar will hold the constitutional referendum in spite of the humanitarian crisis provoked by a cyclone that might have caused the death to 100.000 people, although the official figure is 22.000. |
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Representatives of the Chinese government and of the Dalai Lama meet in Beijing to address the political and social crisis of the last months. |
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The MILF applauds the eventual participation of mediators that facilitated the negotiating process in Northern Ireland in the peace talks of Philippines' region of Mindanao. |
04: Europe
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The ultranationalist Radical Party heads the polls for the early Serbian parliamentary elections in a context of internal political crisis. |
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HRW states that it has information that bolsters allegations of abductions and cross-border transfers from Kosovo to Albania after the Kosovo war. |
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The Turkish army affirms having killed 150 PKK members in a new air offensive in northern Iraq, in parallel to a diplomatic rapprochement between the Turkish government and the Kurdish regime in Iraq. |
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Russia increases the number of peacekeeping troops in the Georgian region of Abkhazia, escalating the diplomatic tension between the Russian government and Georgia. |
05: Middle East
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UNICEF alerts that thousands of people are trapped in Baghdad due to the clashes between the state armed forces and the Shia militias, which have left more than one thousand deaths according to the government. |
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Israel rejects the truce proposal by Hamas and views it as a strategy of the armed group to rearm and regroup itself. |
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Tension increases in Lebanon after the government declared Hezbollah’s telecommunication network illegal as it is considered a threat to the state security. |
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Turkish prime minister meets Syrian president in Damascus in an effort to reach an agreement between Syria and Israel. |
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Spokespersons of al-Houthi group in Yemen say the army is preparing a new war in the north of the country. |
06: International Organizations
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The new UN special rapporteur on the right to food asks for a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to discuss the worldwide food crisis. |
