4 August 2008 -- The Deputy UN-AU Joint Special Representative for Darfur, Henry Anyidoho, travelled to Khartoum yesterday, along with senior African Union officials, for consultations with the Government of Sudan. The officials discussed, among other topics, the deployment of UNAMID; support for the new Joint Chief Mediator, Djibril Bassole; and the strengthening of the offices of the Joint Mediation Support Team. 

They received reassurances from the Government of the Sudan that the full deployment of UNAMID would be facilitated and that all obstacles concerning the use of land by UNAMID would be removed.