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JSR Adada briefs the Security Council in New York

22 April 2008-- In a briefing to the UN Security Council on the situation in Darfur, the UN / AU Joint Special Representative, Rodolphe Adada, appealed to member states to redouble efforts to assist the Mission overcome the logistical and political obstacles it currently faces, stressing that Cou

01 Dec 2008

UNAMID Chief voices ‘impatience’ for positive change

30 April 2008 –The head of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, known as UNAMID, said today that he is just as anxious as people on the ground are for progress.

01 Dec 2008

UNAMID Strongly Condemns Recent Killing of a WFP Driver in Darfur

El Fasher, 27 April 2008 --- UNAMID is deeply shocked and profoundly disturbed by the cold-blooded murder of Mohammed Makki El Rasheed, a truck driver working for United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday 21 April 2008. The perpetrators killed Mr.

01 Dec 2008

UNAMID Evacuates Victims Following Bombardments of Villages in North Darfur

2 May 2008 -- UN/AU peacekeeping forces (UNAMID) succeeded, today, in organizing an operation to air-lift wounded civilians, following SAF air attacks on the village of Umm Sidir in North Darfur, yesterday.

01 Dec 2008

UN Secretary-General sounds alarm on violence in outskirts of Sudanese capital

10 May 2008 –United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced grave concern over the fighting spurred by attacks by the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces that has broken out on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

01 Dec 2008

UN, AU envoys alarmed by violence between Government and rebels in Darfur

9 May 2008 –Speaking out against the recent stepped up violence between the Sudanese Government’s forces and a rebel group, the United Nations and African Union (AU) envoys spearheading efforts to reach a durable political settlement in the war-ravaged Darfur region today underscored the civilian

01 Dec 2008

UN Secretary-General condemns attacks on UNAMID peacekeepers

23 May 2008 -- On 21 May, four UNAMID peacekeepers were ambushed by a group of 60 men armed with semi-automatic weapons on the outskirts of El Geneina. The UNAMID personnel were not hurt, but their effects and weapons were forcefully stolen.

01 Dec 2008

Armed men ambush UNAMID peacekeepers

22 May 2008 – A Nigerian battalion serving with the hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has been ambushed by dozens of men armed with machine guns, rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, the mission reported today.

01 Dec 2008

Darfur conflict threatens to enter new cycle of violence – peacekeeping chief tells Security Council

14 May 2008 – The Darfur conflict could lapse soon into another major cycle of violence and large-scale human displacement unless the parties retreat from their recent state of confrontation, the top United Nations peacekeeping official told the Security Council today.

01 Dec 2008

Security Council slates weekend attacks by Darfur rebels near Sudanese capital

13 May 2008 –The Security Council today deplored the weekend attacks by a Darfurian rebel group against the Sudanese Government on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Khartoum, but urged restraint from all sides and warned that no retaliatory action should be taken against civilians.

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