As the world celebrated the dawn of 2013, in Syria, the regime and the rebels were fighting for the suburbs of Damascus as the bloody conflict which began as peaceful protests for reform in March 2011 continues.
As the conflict draws on in Syria, many women and children are facing the harsh winter with little food or warm clothing in refugee camps. We hear the story of one such pregnant woman, Ayesha.
A new alliance of three rebel groups in the Central African Republic (CAR), which has taken control of five towns in northern-central areas, could jeopardize a complex peace process that has been under way since 2007.
The current conflict between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army can only be understood with reference to the genesis of conflicts in this region of great lakes over the last fifty years.
People within and outside Syria are already gathering evidence to prosecute those that have been perpetrating war crimes during the ongoing civil war in preparation for a process of transitional justice