“If this resolution is implemented quickly and in good faith, at least some of the suffering can be eased.”

“peppered with sheer lies and fabrications deliberately cooked up by hostile forces and riff-raffs such as some ‘elements with ambiguous identities who defected from the north’, criminals who escaped from it after committing crimes against the country to earn money”.

-The 2004 constitution will be restored within 48 hours, and a national unity government will be formed within 10 days.

The Financial Times has called on the European Union to put in place a “tough sanctions package” on leading members of the Ukranian government, as EU ministers and foreign policy envoy Catherine Ashton are set to meet later today.

“In light of the deteriorating situation, the EU has decided as a matter of urgency on targeted measures against those responsible for violence and use of excessive force.”

The ceasefire in South Sudan has been broken after clashes erupted between rebels and government forces in the city of Malakal.

At least 10 people were killed in the fighting outside a UN compound which is currently sheltering civilians from different ethnic group.

Over 150 people have been reportedly killed in Nigeria this week, after attacks a spate of attacks in the country’s North-East attributed to Islamist organisation Boko Haram.