News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

21 January 2008 – The head of United Nations peacekeeping is due to arrive in Sudan today for talks with senior Government officials on issues relating to the deployment of the joint UN-African Union Mission in Darfur, the war-wracked region in the country’s west.Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie…

23 January 2007 -- An important confidence-building meeting between the military leadership of the Sudan and that of the joint United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was held at the Staff College in Khartoum on 20 January 2008. During the meeting, UNAMID Force Commander, General…

23 January 2008 –Food rations to more than 2 million people in Darfur may have to be cut within weeks after a surge of bandit attacks this month against trucks carrying relief supplies to the war-wracked Sudanese region, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. Bandits have stolen…

28 January 2008--- Senior officials of the United Nations, the African Union and the Government of Sudan met yesterday, 27 January 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss ongoing issues related to the deployment of the joint UN-AU peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID). The meeting was attended by…

El Fasher, February 3, 2008--- The JSR, Rodolphe Adada is following with deep concern the deteriorating security situation in Chad and the impact it could have on the situation in Darfur. He also notes with great regret the attacks that led to the crippling of humanitarian activities in region and…

30 January 2008 –Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir have agreed on the need to accelerate the deployment of the hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) to the war-wracked Darfur region and to finalize the status-of-forces agreement for the…

El Fasher, Thursday, 7 February 2008 -- The United Nations-African Union Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Mr. Rodolphe Adada has expressed his appreciation to the Government of the Netherlands for its political, financial and material support to the joint UN-AU Mission in Darfur…

04 February, 2007-- El Fasher / N. Darfur – The Nigerian government has been commended for its display of high level support and commitment to the UN-AU hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). UNAMID’s Joint Special Representative, Mr. Rodolphe Adada, made the commendation in El Fasher, North Darfur…

5 February 2008 –With the crisis in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region continuing, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed for more troops and vital equipment to support the critically under-strength joint UN-African Union force (UNAMID) stem the violence.Addressing the press after briefing the…

8 February 2008 --- "It is with great concern that I have received reports of attacks today by Government forces against villages to the north of Al Geneina in Western Darfur. Many houses in the village of Abu Souruj have been burned and from initial information it appears there has been loss of…

9 February 2008 -- The signing ceremony of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the Government of the Sudan (GoS) and the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was held today, 9 February 2008 in Khartoum, Sudan. The Agreement was signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs…

9 February 2008 -- "It is with great concern that I have been watching developments in Western Darfur, where in the past 36 hours attacks on villages by Government forces have resulted in deaths and significant population displacement," said the UN-AU Special Representative for Darfur, Mr. Rodolphe…