After a year of fighting, more than 9,000 casualties and over 2.4 million internally displaced persons, a UN-brokered ceasefire deal has gone into effect on Monday 11 April with the hopes of paving the way for peace talks that will be held in Kuwait on the 18th of April. Houthi fighters have released statements that they will deal positively with any efforts to lift the suffering of the Yemeni people. People are sceptic about the truce as there have been reports of continued fighting and earlier truces have been broken off before.

On the 9th of April, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt agreed to hand over ownership of the two disputed Red Sea islands Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia. The agreement still has to be presented to parliament for ratification, however, legal experts in Egypt already questioned the legitimacy of the agreement, saying that giving away authority over Egyptian territory is unconstitutional. The statement came while Saudi Arabia's King Salman was in Cairo for a five-day visit. Sisi’s opponent from the 2014 presidential elections, Hamdeen Sabahi, denounced the deal, saying it went against the Egyptian constitution, which prohibits ceding any territory. According to the Cairo-based Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights, many people were arrested in central Cairo when staging a protest against the deal.

On 10 April 2016, the once popular post-revolution Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he would resign. The move followed an earlier vote of no-confidence, which he narrowly survived. Yatsenyuk furthermore already lost the support of several coalition parties, leaving him to govern without a majority in the Parliament backing him up. Yatsenyuk claimed he had stepped down for the sake of political stability. The negative Dutch referendum has been mentioned as a possible reason. Some however see it as part of a bigger game for power in Ukrainian politics. Yatsenyuk himself claimed the crisis had been created artificially and stated that ''the desire to change one person has blinded politicians and paralyzed their will to bring about real changes in the country''. Following his resignation, Yatsenyuk recommended Volodymyr Groysman, the current Chairman of the Ukraine Parliament and close ally of President Petro Poroshenko to succeed him. It is another phase of the political instability of the country.

71 years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, is making a visit to the Hiroshima memorial to pay tribute to the victims. Kerry arrived on April 10 to the G7 meeting of foreign ministers to discuss, among other topics, the Syrian war and the refugee crisis. His counterparts are expected to lay a wreath at the altar. In addition, Kerry clarified that he does not intent to apologize for the bombing. Obama, who will attend the G7 meeting in Japan in May, is considering a visit to Hiroshima – which, if takes place, will be the first time a sitting US president will visit the city.

The elections took place on 10 April and the position for the new President was not taken yet. Incumbent President, Ollanta Humala, cannot prolong his term in the office due to constitutional term limits. A candidate must have support of at least 50% of the voters to win. Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former president – currently jailed for human rights violations, won 38% of the votes. Due to not fulfilling the criteria of obtaining the majority of votes, Fujimori will face Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former World Bank economist, in a second round of elections, scheduled for June 5.

During the presidential elections in Djibouti on the 8th of April, incumbent President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh was re-elected, receiving 87% of the votes in the first round. He establishes his fourth term as President after taking over from his relative Hassan Gouled Aptidon who ruled the country from its independence in 1977 until 1999. His main rival, Djibouti independence hero Omar Elmi Khaireh came in second place with 7% of the votes. The Union for National Salvation (USN), a coalition of seven opposition parties, claimed the election lacked transparency and three of the parties decided to boycott. The other parties of the UNS provided 2 candidates and another three independent candidates joined in on the election contest. The Djibouti electoral commission said 187.000 people of the 876.000 population were eligible to vote.