News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

8 January, 2008 -- A UNAMID Supplies convoy was attacked last night, 7 January 2008, at approximately 2200 Hrs, on its way from Umm Baru to Tine in Western Darfur. The road convoy was on a re-supply mission to UNAMID team sites in the area between Um Baru, Tine and Kulbus, an area which has…

8 January 2008 – Elements of the Sudanese army attacked a supply convoy of the new joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region last night, and a civilian Sudanese driver suffered seven gunshot wounds. Condemning the attack “in the strongest possible…

9 January 2008 – The top United Nations peacekeeping official today warned the Security Council that the new, critically under-manned and under-equipped mission in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region faced “probably the greatest risk” to a UN operation in more than a decade. At the same time, Under…

11 January 2008 –The Security Council today condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the attack by Sudanese army elements on a supply convoy of the new joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur (UNAMID) and voiced its readiness to act against any party impeding its deploy…

13 January 2008 –Arriving today in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the United Nations and African Union (AU) Special Envoys for Darfur began a weeklong mission to infuse new momentum into efforts to bring peace to the war-ravaged region. Jan Eliasson and Salim Ahmed Salim plan to meet with officials…

14 January, 2007-- El Fasher / N. Darfur - The UN-AU hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) supply convoy that left El Fasher to supply food and fuel rations in Southern Darfur yesterday returned to El Fasher. Addressing the peacekeepers, who participated in the supply convoy, at the Mission’s…

14 January, 2007 -- El Fasher / N. Darfur - UNAMID Police Commissioner, Michael Fryer, has stated that UNAMID Police advisors will concentrate their efforts to establish community policing in the camps for the internally displaced (IDPs) in Darfur, map out strategies to protect women and children…

January 16, 2008 -- The UN/AU Joint Special Representative, Mr. Rodolphe Adada paid a courtesy call today on the newly appointed Sudanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mr. Deng Alor. The visit availed a good opportunity for both sides to exchange views on ways and means for better understanding and close…

15 January 2008 – Sudan’s top military officer and his counterpart from the new United Nations-African Union (AU) hybrid mission, known as UNAMID, met today to discuss issues pertaining to the deployment of the joint peacekeeping force which seeks to end the violence in the war-ravaged Darfur region…

January 17, 2008 -- The Government of Sudan today released eight Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) detainees in El Fasher into the custody of UNAMID Force Commander, General Martin Luther Agwai, in his capacity as Chairman of the Ceasefire Commission (CFC), as witnessed by the Joint Special…

18 January 2008 –United Nations and African Union (AU) envoys seeking to end the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region have met with a second rebel movement in an effort to pave the way for peace negotiations. UN Special Envoy Jan Eliasson and his AU counterpart Salim Ahmed Salim met yesterday with the…

20 January 2008 –After meetings with the Government and the main rebel groups, the United Nations and African Union envoys for the Darfur peace process said they are hopeful that talks aimed at ending the conflict in the war-wracked Sudanese region can reconvene soon. The UN's Jan Eliasson and his…