It seems there is no peace in Central African Republic. After a period of relative calm, new episodes of sectarian violence erupted in Bangui in which about 30 people died and nearly 100 got wounded. On Saturday, the recovery of a dead body of a Muslim man near a mosque triggered a heavy reprisal against a “Christian neighborhood” and an inevitable Anti-Balaka retaliation.

After month of stalled negotiations, UN efforts aimed at creating a Government of National Accord in Libya might bear fruit:  an Agreement is now ready and the warring parties (Tripoli and Tobruk governments) might sign it this fall.

Earlier this month, French President François Hollade asked to his Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to launch reconnaissance flights over Syria in case of new potential raids against the Islamic State. On September 16, Le Drian himself declared that France may strike in the "coming weeks […] once we have well identified targets" (source: Bloomberg). In this way, Paris is going to expand its action from Iraq to Syria.

A new wave of veiled and cautious optimism has been going along with this September 2015. In late August, Ukrainian and separatist forces reached a tacit agreement on a new truce to be started on September 1st. In most cases, the media have been describing this new ceasefire as holding up. However, OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) reports show that, despite the fact that ceasefire violations drastically decreased since September 1st, fighting sporadically continued (especially around Donetsk on September 5 and 7). So, no doubt that the overall situation in Donbass region is now quieter and safer than it used to be weeks ago, but, there is still much more to be done.

As OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier put it, "the cease-fire now has being holding for more than 10 days and that's good news, because that is opening now the space to make progress on a political level" (source: AP).