The chief prosecutor of the world’s only permanent war crimes court said on Monday she has sent a team to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to urge restraint after weeks of deadly unrest. More than 50 people died in clashes in the capital Kinshasa in September as the opposition …

At least 56 rebels and four government soldiers were killed over the weekend as heavy clashes erupted in northeastern South Sudan, an army spokesman said Monday. “The dead bodies of the rebels confirmed after count was 56 … on our side we lost four SPLA fighters and twenty were wounded,” …

Martin Kobler, the UN envoy to Libya, called on the international community to support the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and to do what is necessary to prevent illegal arms trade to Libya. Kobler addressed the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday and said there are “positive …