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El Fasher, 25 January 2012 – Listening to the concerns of local stakeholders across Darfur and engaging them in the peace process was the focus of African Union – United Nations Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari over the past week.
22 January 2012- African Union-United Nations Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari met today with the leadership of all the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in the Zalingei corridor of the new Central Darfur state and urged them to “leave the past behind and look to the future.” He added “You cannot make peace if you are friends, you make peace if you are enemies. This is a chance for peace in Darfur which we should not let slip away from us.”
21 January 2012 – An African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) patrol was ambushed today by unidentified armed persons in East Darfur. As a result, one peacekeeper was killed and three others wounded.
19 January 2012 - During his first encounter with representatives of the community from Kassab and Fataborno internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Kutum, North Darfur, African Union-United Nations Joint Special Representative Ibrahim Gambari reaffirmed UNAMID's continued commitment to implement its core mandate and support the peace process.
19 January 2012 - After delays that threatened to set back the Darfur peace process in latter half of 2011, the first weeks of 2012 brought a rush of activity in support of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, signed by the Government of Sudan and the Liberation and Justice Movement.
18 January 2012 - Darfur is closer to a comprehensive peace than it has ever been, the head of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) told some 1,000 peacekeeping staff in his first town hall meeting of 2012.
18 January 2012 - Dissemination workshops for the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) began today among North Darfur’s communities. The exercise is organized by the Civil Society Follow-up Mechanism, an instrument created to liaise with the civil society organizations on the Doha peace process, and supported logistically and technically by UNAMID.
16 January 2012-The Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) Implementation Follow-up Commission (IFC) held its second meeting on 16 January 2012,at the UNAMID Headquarters in El Fasher.The meeting was chaired by Ahmed Bin Abdulla Al Mahmoud, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs of the State of Qatar, and was attended by representatives of Canada, the Republic of Chad, the People’s Republic of China, Egypt, France,Japan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States, the African Union, the European Union, the League of Arab States, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and the former AU-UN Joint Chief Mediator for Darfur, Djibril Bassole.
15 January 2012 – The head of the Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) established under the terms of a peace agreement to end conflict in the Sudanese region said implementation of the deal was firmly on track and the DRA will give priority to rolling out development projects that would encourage the return of displaced people.
11 January 2011 - The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, briefed the UN Security Council on UNAMID.
04 January 2012- A medical donation to Nyala teaching hospital took place yesterday by the Pakistani contingent in South Darfur, Nyala. UNAMID in its continuous efforts to improve welfare of the people of Darfur has donated medical drugs worth then $20,000.
El Fasher, 30 December 2011--On the occasion of the New Year, which coincides with Sudan’s Independence Day, and on behalf of the African Union and United Nations, I would like to extend my sincere wishes to the people of Darfur and the Government of Sudan for a happy and peaceful new year.
20 December 2011- International support for the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is more critical than ever at this stage, as the peacekeeping mission is supporting implementation of the Doha peace deal, said Erastus Mwencha, Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, during a visit to Darfur.
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