A series of attacks on indigenous people have unsettled the peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, with tensions running high after a number of injuries resulting from attacks on indigenous people in Rangamati and resistance against them.
There is much talk of a possible upcoming civil war in Dagestan, a Russian republic located next to Chechnya in the North Caucasus after days of subversive acts, murders and attacks in the region.
Three Islamist armed groups controlling northern Mali have committed serious abuses against the local population while enforcing their interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law, according to Human Rights Watch
As the fighting continues in Syria and more civilians are killed and flee each day, there is still no consensus at the United Nations on how the international community should act to stop the bloodshed.
In the summer of 2012, VICE correspondent Aris Roussinos travelled to Sudan’s Blue Nile region where he spent a month making friends, playing checkers and getting bombed with the guys from SPLA-N (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement) – a group of rebels that fight to keep President Omar al-Bashir from turning Sudan into an Arab Islamist state. The article below and the video above are his account of that month.