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UNAMID PR / 08-2011 PRESS RELEASE UNAMID Chief launches water resource initiative in Darfur El Fasher, 26 April 2011 – Greeted by hundreds of formerly displaced persons in the village of Kuma Garadayat, North Darfur, UNAMID…
20 April 2011 - In a continuing effort to improve law enforcement facilities throughout Darfur, UNAMID has today donated computers to all prisons in the three Darfur states. The equipment was handed over in a ceremony at the…
17 April 2011 - UNAMID Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari today travelled to Nyala, South Darfur, where he met with the state government, UN personnel and representatives of the humanitarian community. The JSR…
17 April 2011 - Today marked the launch of a UNAMID-supported disarmament programme in El Geneina, West Darfur, through which more than 1,000 former fighters in the Darfur conflict will surrender their weapons and begin the…
14 April 2011 - A delegation of eight women ambassadors from around the world and accredited to the African Union, arrived today in El Fasher, North Darfur, to meet with UNAMID officials, women’s groups and female legislators…
13 April 2011 - UNAMID is currently verifying through its team sites recent reports of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and rebel groups. Patrols planned within the past several days to these areas have been unable…
13 April 2011 - UNAMID, OCHA and camp leaders have successfully mediated the release of twelve Sudanese aid workers who were taken hostage by a youth group at Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in South Darfur. The…
In 2001, UN General Assembly proclaimed that year as International Year of Volunteers in recognition of the valuable contribution and further potential of volunteerism for economic and social development. 10 years have passed…
11 April 2011 - Twenty-five police officers from Nyala, South Darfur, took part today in a seminar organized by UNAMID on investigative techniques and international human rights standards. The participants discussed their…
11 April 2011 - UNAMID peace keepers from the Mission’s Thai battalion stationed in Mukjar, West Darfur, have begun drilling a well for a nearby elementary school. Once complete, the borehole has the capacity to provide…
While seeking political means to put an end to violence in Darfur is paramount for UNAMID, the National Government and different partners in Sudan, Frank Adarkwah-Yiadom, from Ghana, and Aimee Mwenyi Ntumba, from Democratic…
07 April 2011 - UNAMID’s peacekeepers today paid respect to the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In three months, the mass killing claimed more than 800,000 lives. In a ceremony at the Mission’s headquarters in El Fasher…