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South Sudan's president and vice president order their rival forces to cease hostilities after days of fighting that has threatened to plunge the nation back into civil war. Jillian Kitchener reports.
The United States says that Sudan's rival forces have both committed war crimes in their brutal conflict, accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The two sides "must end this brutal conflict... must comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law, international human rights law," says State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. SOUNDBITE
Smoke billows and gunshots ring out during renewed clashes between members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement and Islamist militants in the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the coastal Lebanese city of Sidon. IMAGES
The International Criminal Court has opened a new probe into last month's killing of 87 ethnic Masalit, allegedly by Rapid Support Forces and their allied militia in West Darfur, its chief prosecutor tells the UN Security Council. "We are, by any analysis, not on the precipice of a human catastrophe but in the very midst of one," prosecutor Karim Khan says. SOUNDBITE
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
Smoke billows over south Khartoum on the last day of a frequently breached ceasefire, as calls for civilians to arm themselves stoked fears the six-week war will intensify. IMAGES
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