Controversy has erupted in the Bosnian town of Visegrad, after Bosnian Serb authorities removed the word ‘genocide’ from a memorial plaque erected in the Eastern town.

The memorial, which read, "to all killed and missing Bosniaks, children, women and men, victims of genocide in Visegrad", was erected in the Straziste Muslim cemetery.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) delayed the trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta today, after receiving a request from the prosecutors to delay the trial by 3 months and a request by Kenyatta’s defence to withdraw the case altogether.

A Rwandan man has placed under arrest by Dutch police, after being suspected of participating in the 1994 genocide and now faces a possible extradition to Rwanda.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has called on Burma to investigate reports that 48 Rohingya Muslims were killed in attacks by Buddhists in Rakhine state.

A statement said that the UN had received credible information about the deathsin Du Chee Yar Tan village.

The government and the rebels in South Sudan, who have been involved in deadly clashes over the past month, have agreed to a ceasefire, reported mediators in Addis Ababa.

They said that the rivals are expected to sign the agreement on "cessation of hostilities and the question of the detainees" in the Ethiopian capital.

The head of the European Commission today gave a stern warning to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich to end the violence that has seen battles between protestors and police on the streets of Kiev, after the deaths of at least three people yesterday.

The authors of a newly released report on torture in Syria have compared the evidence they received to a “Nazi archive”, as talks between the Syrian opposition and the government are set to begin in Geneva.

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, former lead prosecutor of former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, said,

A newly released report by three eminent lawyers has documented new evidence that the Syrian state has been “systematically killing” approximately 11,000 prisoners.

The 31-page report, commissioned by Qatar who have been supportive of the Syrian opposition, examines thousands of images of dead prisoners which have been smuggled out of the country.

The South Sudanese government has accused the UN peacekeeping mission in the country of hiding rebels and their arms at their camps, which are giving shelter to over 70,000 civilians.

The country’s president, Salva Kiir has hit out at the UN, saying it acted like a “parallel government” in South Sudan.

A United Nations official warned that the “seeds of genocide” were present in the Central African Republic, as the European Union looks set to deploy troops to the crisis hit region.

The invitation for Iran to participate in talks on the Syrian conflict has been withdrawn by the UN after the Syrian opposition said it would withdraw from the conference in protest.