Five Indian peacekeepers were killed on Tuesday in an ambush in South Sudan, the Indian foreign ministry said, a day after the head of the UN mission there warned about spiralling violence. "Five peacekeepers from India with UNMISS (United Nations Mission in South Sudan) killed in ambush in Jonglei," foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin wrote on Twitter, adding that four had been wounded. He confirmed the deaths at the hands of unknown "rebels" to AFP and said the soldiers had been killed while "escorting a UN convoy".

White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan holds a training workshop here on Tuesday on conflict reporting for women journalists apprising them with new and latest trends to report objectively in crucial circumstances. Addressing the workshop, Country Director Heinrich Boll Stiftung, Britta Petersen instructed the journalists on different aspects and issues of ‘Conflict Sensitive Journalism’. She also described in detail journalists unconscious role, reliable journalism and democracy, newsroom culture and standards of quality journalism. The workshop was organized in collaboration wi

The main rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday denounced as an act of war the UN approving to send its first-ever "offensive" peacekeeping brigade to the region. Instead of "encouraging a political solution by supporting the political negotiations... the UN has chosen to wage war against one of the partners for peace," the M23 political leader Bertrand Bisimwa said in a statement.

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday hailed the UN move to create the first-ever "offensive" peacekeeping brigade to fight rebel groups in the country's restive east. "The DRC welcomes this vote, which marks a decisive turning point for re-establishing peace and security in the Kivu" regions, Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo said in a statement. He was referring to the North and South Kivu provinces in the resource-rich east of the country, which has been gripped by conflict for more than two decades.