News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

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. “We have come to realize that Darfur still…

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. This is Zam Zam, 10 km west of El Fasher, capital of…

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). Despite both parties…

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.

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. “With the Government…

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. He calls on…

20 March 2008 -- GENEVA- A report issued on Thursday by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), that was prepared in cooperation with the United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), stated that recent attacks by militias and the Sudanese Armed Forces on four villages in West…

20 March 2008 -- El Fasher, SUDAN – Following the recent violence and continuing tension in West Darfur, UNAMID Deputy Joint Special Representative Henry Anyidoho traveled to Silea in West Darfur to personally assess the security situation on the ground and to look at the possibility of UNAMID…

25 March 2008 - A UNAMID armoured vehicle and a passenger bus collided near Nyala , South Darfur, at 0930 hours, today. Initial reports suggest that one passenger and four pedestrians were killed, while another seventeen people were injured and taken to Nyala hospital for treatment. The accident…

28 March 2008 - The UN/AU Joint Special Representative for Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, received in Khartoum, on Friday, a delegation from the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC), currently visiting Sudan.The delegation led by Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, the Council’s Secretary-General, comprises a…

4 April 2008 -- Four years ago this week, the Security Council first took up the issue of Darfur. The situation remains grim today, as then, if not worse. Violence targeting civilians, including women and girls, continues at alarming levels with no accountability, or end, in sight. Some 4.27 million…

1 April 2008 -- The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by reports of continued movement of rebel groups across the Chadian/Sudanese border and by the possibility that these groups may launch cross-border attacks. The Secretary-General calls on the Governments of Chad and Sudan to uphold their…