The official end to the fighting came too late for at least five people in the Georgian town of Gori.
They died in a series of explosions not long before Russia called off its military action.
Alan Fisher reports from Gori, a Georgian town devastated by war.
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from the town of Gori heading near Georgian-South Ossetian border.
Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, says he’s a peacemaker, and told Darfuris this during a visit to the region.
His promises of roads and schools for the war-torn state, were welcomed with applause by the people of Darfur.
Mohammed Adow was with al-Bashir when he arrived in the northern town of El Fasher, and stayed behind to gauge reaction.
Educating their children is the key to the future for Tuareg nomads who are losing their traditional way of life.
However, in Tazerzait, a remote area of northern Niger, the only school was seized by the army and turned into a barracks to fight the Tuareg rebellion.
Niger’s civil war is damaging its children, and destroying the potential of the country as a whole.
Al Jazeera’s May Welsh reports from northern Niger on the endangered minds of the Sahara’s future.
African Union peacekeepers have come under renewed attack in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports on the continuing conflict.