Sudan’s devastating civil war is being fueled in part by weapons secretly supplied to both sides by foreign countries, including munitions and drones from the United Arab Emirates and Iran, according to confidential assessments, a State Department funded report and evidence collected from captured weapons in Sudan.

The legislation would require the State Department to regularly report to Congress on whether the human rights violations committed by the Sudanese army and the rebel paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have risen to the level of genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity.

The Sudanese army accuses the UAE of supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which the UAE denies. The two countries also expelled each other’s diplomats earlier this year.

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Monday to extend for another year the mandate of the armed security mission helping Haiti fight armed gangs.

More than 100 people from 17 African countries visited Vicenza for a four-day annual planning event that included Army experts.

Severe rains bucketed down on central Europe, Africa, Shanghai and the U.S. Carolinas this week, underscoring the extreme ways in which climate change is altering the weather.

In April, the two countries agreed to bolster economic relations before implementing a naval facility for the Russian army on Sudan’s Red Sea coastline.

The death toll was rising in Central European countries on Sunday after days of heavy rains caused widespread flooding and forced mass evacuations.

Two rival political entities are vying for influence over key institutions like the central bank and the National Oil Corporation.  A rolling crisis over control of the central bank has paralyzed the economy and sparked new fears of conflict.

As two dozen members of Jamaica’s military and police forces prepare to arrive in Port-au-Prince on Thursday to begin their country’s participation in an armed security mission in Haiti, the international community is reiterating the call for a surge in assistance to the non-United Nations security mission.