More than 170 people have reportedly been killed in clashes in South Sudan, leading to President Salva Kiir declaring a state of emergency across the country.

The order allows the army to use force if civilians did not lay down weapons, reports the BBC.

The European Union rejected calls by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to join the US in recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

During his first visit to the European Union headquarters in Brussels, Mr Netanyahu said the US decision helped peace, “because recognising reality is the substance of peace, the foundation of peace.”

Nationalists in Corsica have gained a majority in elections for a new regional assembly on the French Mediterranean island, reports the New York Times.

The coalition of moderate and hard line nationalists won 56.5 percent of the vote to defeat President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres marked Genocide Prevention Day on Saturday, with a message that the international community ”must do more” to prevent genocide from occurring, rather than reacting.

Luxury jeweller Cartier announced that it will no longer be buying gemstones from Myanmar, following a campaign to boycott the purchase of “genocide gems” over the Burmese government’s military campaign against Rohingya Muslims, reports The Times.

France and Turkey’s presidents have agreed to work together to persuade the US to reconsider its decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Speaking to Reuters, a Turkish official said the two leaders agreed over the phone to make a joint effort to reverse the US decision.

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gerban Bassil called on Arab nations to consider economic sanctions against the US to prevent it moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, reports Reuters.

 Speaking at a meeting of foreign ministers of the Arab League in Cairo, Mr Bassil said,

“Pre-emptive measures must be taken against the decision .. beginning with diplomatic measures, then political, then economic and financial sanctions.”

Hundreds of people attended a rally in Jakarta last week, calling for self-determination for West Papua.
The rally, organised by the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-WP), was initially meant to march from the Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta) offices in Central Jakarta to the offices of PT Freeport Indonesia.

At least 14 UN peacekeepers were killed this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo during an attack on the UN's Monusco mission base in North Kivu. 

Over 53 are reported to have been injured in the attack, believed to have been carried out by fighters alligned to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). 

The attack was condemned "unequivocally" by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres. 

At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, members states condemned the US' decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, warning that it sets backs years of peace efforts in the region and would lead to bloodshed. 

Notably criticism also came from traditional US allies, the UK, France, Japan, Sweden and Italy. 

US President Donald Trump has called on Saudi Arabia to allow humanitarian aid into Yemen, as conflict in the country has left millions at the risk of famine.

Saudi Arabia must “completely allow food, fuel, water and medicine to reach the Yemeni people who desperately need it,” said Mr Trump adding that it “must be done for humanitarian reasons immediately”.

The government of Cameroon this week increased the deployment of troops in the Anglophone southwest region of the country in an escalating crackdown on Anglophone separatists. 

Thousands of residents have been ordered to leave their homes by the government. Many thousands have already fled after government troops quashed peaceful protests and carried out a number of reprisal attacks. 

The leader of Hamas Ismail Haniya on Thursday said the US president's decision to consider Jerusalem as the capital of Israel as a "war declaration against Palestinians". 

In a speech from Gaza city a day after Mr Trump's announcement, Mr Haniya said the US had "killed" the peace efforts in the region. 

"This decision has killed the peace process, has killed the Oslo [accord], has killed the settlement process," he added.

US president Trump on Wednesday formally recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in a move that reversed over seven decades of US foreign policy.

Leaders across the world expressed concern at the US move to recognise the disputed city as the capital of Israel.