On May 31, 2011 in Sudan was concluded an agreement on truce in Darfur.
Conflict in the region originated in the 19th century: ethnic groups inhabiting the territory could not find a common language and were engaged into continuing wars. However, in 2003 due to an agreement between the capital and the southern rebels regarding allocation of oil revenues, which according to locals did not take into account their interests, a real armed conflict broke out.
These unfortunate events caused a massive outflow of refugees. According to the UN, about 200 thousand people passed into neighbouring Chad.
Hostilities in the country lasted for eight years. Only in 2011 Qatar hosted a conference to resolve the conflict the peace treaty adopted, which was an important step towards achieving peace in Darfur.
The number of victims is estimated about 400 thousand people. Operation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in this country is the second largest humanitarian operation in the world.
The district court of Amsterdam ordered to return to Ukraine 500 showpieces from four museums of the Crimea famous as ‘Scythian gold’, as Reuters reported on Wednesday, on the 12-th of December.
As it is reported by the edition France24, at the auction in Paris the most famous gun in the story of French literature has been sold. The poet Paul Verlain tried to shot his love partner using the stated weapon directing to bullet to another famous literature activist Arthur Rimbaud.
UNESCO has recognized as the heritage the songs performed by Cossacks within the territory where Dnepropetrovsk region is situated now. It is reported at the web-site of the international organization.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
The samples of saliva of 83 aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans showed that they are the direct descendants of the first people who inhabited the green continent nearly 50 thousand years ago.
On July 14 France celebrates the French National Day which commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille fortress.
In Tintagel Castle in Cornwall which is considered as the birth place of King Arthur the suspension bridge will be built. As The Guardian reports, it will ease the travelling way to the ancient castle located at the rugged cliff.
Hundreds of couples gathered in Times Square in New York so as to repeat a kiss of sailor and nurse embedded at the stated area by a photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on Victory over Japan Day. It is reported by Associated Press.
Exactly 700 years ago, the army of the Scottish king Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn defeated the English army of King Edward II, thereby gaining the freedom of their country. Since then Independence Day in Scotland is celebrated on June 24.
