UNAMID News
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18 June 2008 -- A UNAMID staff member was abducted, stripped of official and personal belongings, and physically assaulted by members of an armed Arab militia, as three of his colleagues were held at gun-point, at…
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25 June 2008 -- "A delegation from the United Nations Security Council recently witnessed the challenges facing the African Union/U.N. operation in Darfur (UNAMID). We are missing forces and the equipment needed to sustain…
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24 June 2008 –Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the entry into force of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region after its ratification by eight African countries. The pact entered…
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22 June 2008 -- The Police component of the African Union- United Nations Mission in Darfur, (UNAMID) conducted its first training programme in Criminal Investigations for the Government of the Sudan (GoS) Police officials in…
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29 May 2008 -–UNAMID confirmed today that a Ugandan civilian police inspector serving with the operation has been “brutally and shamelessly murdered” in the north of the strife-torn region of Sudan. Inspector John Kennedy…
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2 July 2008 -- Dmitry Titov, the UN Assistant Secretary-General in charge of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in New York recently paid a working…
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El Fasher, N. Darfur, 9 July 2008 – The Joint AU/UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) joins the Secretary-General of the United Nations in condemning in the strongest terms the attack on its peacekeepers that took place on the…
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9 July 2008 -- "On 8 July at approximately 14h45 local time, a UN-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) joint police and military patrol was ambushed by unidentified militia between Gusa Jamat and Wadah (100 km…
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2 July 2008 – A combined patrol team of UNAMID Force and CIVPOL on a routine confidence building patrol to Zamzam IDP camp in North Darfur was obstructed by armed SLA/Minni commanders. The incident happened at 10:30 am, 30…
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30 June 2008 -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the African Union Chairperson have appointed Mr. Djibril Yipènè Bassolé of Burkina Faso as Joint AU-UN Chief Mediator for Darfur. Mr. Bassolé will conduct the mediation…
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10 July 2008 - The UN-AU mission in Darfur reports today that the attack on a UNAMID patrol on Tuesday , 8 July, resulted in the deaths of seven peacekeepers -- five Rwandan military personnel and two police officers – one…
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27 June 2008 -- Among UNAMID’s activities is building the skills of women in Darfur as a way of equipping them to be active players in the socio-economic life of Darfur. One such recent activity, concluded on 26 June, was a…