Amid continuing tensions in the Central African Republic, rival Christian and Muslim militias in one part of the capital Bangui have declared a truce and shaken hands in public.
They say the truce is critical that gives civilians a much needed reprieve from the violence, to stock up on supplies, to take care of the injured and bury the dead.
What I forgot to earmark in that promise was that ice and apathy have ways of instantly repealing all truces and resolutions signed in sunnier moments.
That's one of the materials that have been impacted by a trade war between the United States and China but now the two country has called a sort of trade truce.
Without any instruction or command, the shooting stopped and German and British soldiers met in no man's land. Photographs were taken and gifts exchanged. It was a Christmas truce.
The two sides agreed to a truce after five weeks of fighting, that killed thousands of people. Philip Aguer, a spokesman for South Sudan's army, the SPLA
Russia announced on Friday that its Syrian government allies would begin a unilateral ceasefire at dawn today and it called on rebels to observe the truce.