Press releases

  • 09 Nov 2009 - El Fasher, 01 September 2009 The new Force Commander of the African Union United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba (Rwanda), assumes duty today. He was appointed by the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission and the Secretary-General of the United Nations to succeed General Martin Luther Agwai, who was UNAMID’s Force Commander since the establishment of the Mission.
  • 09 Nov 2009 -
    Dear Darfurians, As I am leaving my functions as Joint Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and of the Secretary General of the United Nations and Chief of UNAMID, the AU-UN Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur, I should like to express my most sincere gratitude and respect to you, the people of Darfur.
  • 09 Nov 2009 - El Fasher, 20 August 2009 - The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) yesterday convened a Round Table meeting of the Parties and Partners of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) on the implementation of the DPA chaired by UNAMID Joint Special representative (JSR), Mr. Rodolphe Adada
  • 09 Nov 2009 - On the advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan, I would like to seize this opportunity to send my best wishes to all Sudanese throughout the Sudan in general and Darfur in particular.
  • 09 Nov 2009 - El Fasher, 6 June 2008 – An Antonov 28 fixed wing aircraft belonging to Supreme Global Services Solutions, which has been contracted by the United Nations to supply food rations in its peace operations, crash landed in Saraf Omra in Kabkabiya Province, North Darfur earlier today. According to reports, the incident occurred on approach to the runway when the aircraft’s nose wheel collapsed.
  • 09 Nov 2009 - El Fasher, 6 June 2008 – An Antonov 28 fixed wing aircraft belonging to Supreme Global Services Solutions, which has been contracted by the United Nations to supply food rations in its peace operations, crash landed in Saraf Omra in Kabkabiya Province, North Darfur earlier today. According to reports, the incident occurred on approach to the runway when the aircraft’s nose wheel collapsed.
  • 08 Nov 2009 - On the advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan, I would like to seize this opportunity to send my best wishes to all Sudanese throughout the Sudan in general and Darfur in particular.
  • 08 Nov 2009 - El Fasher, 6 June 2008 – An Antonov 28 fixed wing aircraft belonging to Supreme Global Services Solutions, which has been contracted by the United Nations to supply food rations in its peace operations, crash landed in Saraf Omra in Kabkabiya Province, North Darfur earlier today. According to reports, the incident occurred on approach to the runway when the aircraft’s nose wheel collapsed.
  • 08 Nov 2009 - El Fasher, 8 May 2009 – The African Union-United Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) announces with deep regret that one of its peacekeepers was shot and killed last night in South Darfur during a carjacking incident. At approximately 20:30 hours, unidentified gunmen shot the male military observer as he was opening the gate of his residence in Nyala, the state capital, to park his vehicle. The peacekeeper was rushed to a nearby UNAMID medical centre for treatment but died upon arrival.
  • 29 May 2009 - El Fasher, 25 May 2009 – The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) today condemned heavy fighting in and around a North Darfur town that has injured more than 50 people and forced hundreds of civilians to seek shelter around a UNAMID camp.

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