The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution endorsing an international road map seeking a peaceful political solution.

The resolution, endorsed on Friday, supported a plan agreed by world powers in Vienna on how to help transition Syria form civil war to a political solution.
 

Thousands of Iraqis protested against Turkey’s deployment of troops to a base near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday.

The deployment of Turkish troop into Iraq earlier this month sparked uproar in Baghdad, which appealed to the United Nations Security Council to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Turkish troops from northern Iraq.

Almost 800 cases of rape, torture and murder were committed over eight months in the Central Africa Republic by armed groups, reported the UN mission MINUSCA on Friday.

MINUSCA’s first human rights report said 775 violations and abuses affecting at least 785 victims were committed between September 2014 to May 2015.

Syria’s political and armed opposition agreed to meet with the Assad regime for talks seeking a political solution to the conflict next month announced the chair of the opposition groups conference in Saudi Arabia.

A former Rwandan mayor who was wanted for genocide was arrested by the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday.

Ladislas Ntaganzwa, accused of orchastrating the killing of tens of thousands of people during the 1994 genocide, was indicted in 1996 and accused of genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide as well as extermination murder and rape.

Several military bases across Burundi were attacked by insurgents, killing at least 12 attackers.

An army spokesperson said that five soldiers were injured in the clashes.

It is unclear who is behind the violence but the spokesperson said insurgents wanted to take weapons before freeing prisoners.

High-level peace talks between India and Pakistan will resume, announced India's foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, after meeting her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz.

"The foreign secretaries of both countries will meet and chart out the agenda for the meetings," Ms Swaraj told reporters.

The head of Canada’s Assembly of First Nations (AFN) said that large companies could develop in Aboriginal areas if they forged good links with the community.

Noting that companies could develop in Aboriginal areas, Perry Bellegarde said that as long as they “respect inherent rights, treaty rights and indigenous peoples’ involvement, there could be ways to work through some of those concerns.”

Nearly 100 Burundian protesters who opposed President Pierre Nkurunziza during months of escalating violence in the capital Bujumbura were released on Tuesday.

The announcement came as the Burundian government held aid talks with European Union officials.

The Burundian Interior Ministry’s permanent secretary said that the release of the 97 prisoners had “no connection with the consultations underway.”

Russia and China are expected to block any punitive measures proposed at the UN Security Council, after the US set a special meeting on for Thursday to discuss the country.

China has reportedly objected to the meeting organised by the US, which holds the presidency this month, arguing that it is beyond the scope of the peace and security mandate of the council.

Four French soldiers were questioned on Tuesday over allegations of child rape in the Central African Republic, AFP reports.

The investigation in Paris is looking at 14 soldiers involvement in the allegations of sexual abuse of a group of children in CAR's capital Bangui between December 2013 and June 2014. The children, some as young as nine, said the soldiers abused them in exchange for food.

The allegations first surfaced after a UN report leaked, sparking accusations of a cover-up.

This is not the first time that allegations of sexual abuse have been made against UN peacekeeping soldiers.

Sri Lankan troops were expelled from Haiti for sexually abusing children in 2007, with 111 soldiers and 3 officers were repatriated back to Sri Lanka after being part of UN mission in Haiti and were accused of a string of sexual assaults, including rape of children as young as 7 years old. No prosecutions or punishments have taken place.