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15 February 2008 -- With 135,000 internally displaced persons, the city of Gereda in South Darfur houses the highest number of IDPs in Darfur – a region in which some 2.5 million are displaced.

01 Dec 2008

UN Police in Darfur extends patrols to SLA/M controlled areas

3 March 2008 -- In an effort to strengthen cooperation and trust between the UN and the local police and population in Darfur, the UN Police working for UNAMID conducted the first confidence-building patrol in areas controlled by the Mini Minawi faction of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) in North

01 Dec 2008

UNAMID Chairs the First Meeting of the Darfur Ceasefire Commission in 2008

1 March 2008 -- The Darfur Ceasefire commission (CFC) held its first meeting in 2008 with the absence of one major party.

01 Dec 2008

Secretary-General Ban welcomes the initiative to establish a group of “Friends of UNAMID”

6 March 2008 -- "The Secretary-General welcomes the initiative to establish a group of “Friends of UNAMID” which will focus on supporting the deployment of the AU-UN peacekeeping operation in Darfur.

01 Dec 2008

UNAMID Soldiers Donate Clothes and Money for Kids

9 March 2008 -- Knowing that the months from December through February can be cold, UNAMID troops donated their own warm clothes and blankets to the internally displaced people (IDPs) of Mallit, a small town north of the city of El Fasher in North Darfur.

01 Dec 2008

UNAMID Human Rights Office Visits Zam Zam Camp: More needs to be done

A dusty road, partly tar, partly dirt; two government check-points where Sudanese soldiers appear familiar with the United Nations (UN) internal forms for movement of personnel; and an endless landscape of huts made out of wood and straw mats.

01 Dec 2008

In South Darfur, UNAMID reaches out to all parties of the conflict

The dust road leading from Al Mazroob to Um Suona has been wiped away. It has been a year since the Government of Sudan, with the support of the local Ma’alia tribe, launched an offensive to recover the area from the Minni Minawi faction of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA/MM).

01 Dec 2008

Darfur Women and Girls Feel much Safer with UNAMID Police

Amina Mohammed, 15, is one of three girls in her family at Al-Salam Camp of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), just outside Nyala in South Darfur. One of her many chores is to fetch firewood for the family.

01 Dec 2008

Top UN peacekeeping official urges pressure on Darfur combatants to lay down arms

11 March 2008 -- Recent fierce fighting in Sudan’s devastated Darfur region makes it clear that the international effort to protect the population is at dire risk unless the parties are pressured to negotiate a peace, at top United Nations peacekeeping official said today.

01 Dec 2008

Statment attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the Dakar Agreement

14 March 2008 -- "The Secretary-General commends the Governments of Chad and the Sudan for the Agreement they reached in Dakar yesterday under the auspices of President Abdoulaye Wade. He is encouraged by their stated determination and commitment to normalize their bilateral relations.

01 Dec 2008

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