News Roundup – 1-2 September 2014
Pitfalls abound in Colombia-FARC peace talks
Pentagon set to open second drone base in Niger as it expands operations in Africa
Chatham House research paper: Nigeria’s Interminable Insurgency? Addressing the Boko Haram Crisis
Boko Haram said to have seized strategic Nigerian town
ICRC: Renewed violence in capital CAR and throughout the country
Rebels in CAR expel government ministers
Libyan Militias Seize Control of Capital as Chaos Rises
UN: Over 300 killed in clashes between Rezeigat and Ma’alia in East Darfur
Somali and AU forces in al-Shabab offensive
U.S. drone strike in Somalia targets al-Shabab leader, Al-Shabaab in Somalia confirms leader was targeted in US drone strike and U.S. acknowledges carrying out counterterrorism strike in Somalia
Human Rights Watch: Rising Civilian Toll in Luhansk (Ukraine)
Fatou Bensouda: the truth about the ICC and Gaza
Starvation as a weapon of war in Syria
Amnesty International: Gruesome evidence of ethnic cleansing in northern Iraq as Islamic State moves to wipe out minorities
Human Rights Watch: Evidence of Islamic State Cluster Munition Use in Syria
Human Rights Watch: Islamic State Executions in Tikrit
Islamic State claims to have beheaded American journalist Steven Sotlo
Annyssa Bellal
Katharine Fortin
Rogier Bartels