Egyptian engineering company fully deploys
12 August 2008 -- 126 Egyptian military engineers arrived in Darfur earlier today. The Egyptian Engineering Company is now fully deployed with a strength of 335 military personnel. The Egyptian Engineering company is composed…
Arrival of Ethiopian peacekeepers' advance party completed
18 August 2008 -- With the arrival of 116 peacekeepers at El Fasher airport earlier today the advance party of the first Ethiopian Infantry Battalion to join UNAMID, the UN-AU Hybrid Operation in Darfur, has been completed. A…
Rebel groups must unite to reach lasting solution for Darfur – General Agwai
12 August 2008 –Darfur’s splintered rebel movements must unite at the negotiating table if there is to be a lasting solution to the conflict in the Sudanese region, the military chief of the joint United Nations-African Union…
UNAMID condemns use of excessive force at Kalma IDP camp in South Darfur
26 August 2008 -- On Monday, 25 August, UNAMID officials in the South Darfur Sector Headquarters of Nyala received information that Government of Sudan (GoS) armed elements were at the Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs…
UNAMID sends patrols to Kalma camp after reports of attack
25 August 2008 -- UNAMID sent police and military patrols to the Kalma camp, home to 80,000 internally displaced persons, to confirm this incident and lend any assistance needed. UNAMID leadership is extremely concerned by…
UNAMID marks the fifth anniversary of the tragic attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad
19 August 2008 -- The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, (UNAMID), Headquarters, in El Fasher, observed a one minute silence in honor of UN colleagues who were killed in Iraq in 2003.Going by the…
The Joint GOS - UNAMID Technical Committe meets in Khartoum
18 August 2008 -- At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Khartoum yesterday, the African Union – United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the Government of Sudan held their monthly Technical Committee Meeting, headed by…
Kalma camp incident: Final casualty toll, and UNAMID to meet concerned parties
27 August 2008 -- On 25th August 2008, violent clashes erupted at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp of Kalma, near Nyala, the capital city of South Darfur, between military and police units of the Government of…
Secretary-General Ban reports to Security Council on UNAMID deployment
28 August 2008 -- The Secretary-General’s latest report on the deployment of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur covering the month of July was released in New York today. July has seen an extremely…
JSR Adada expresses grave concern over Kalma incidents
1 September 2008 -- The Joint Special Representative (JSR) of the African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), Mr. Rodolphe Adada, officially expressed to the Government of Sudan UNAMID’s “grave concern…
Statement by JSR Adada to the People of Sudan on the occassion of the holy month of Ramadan
31 August 2008 -- On the eve of the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, the most venerated and blessed of the Islamic year, I should like to extend to the population of Darfur and the whole Sudanese nation my…
UNAMID to boost security measures at Kalma IDP camp
3 September 2008 -- The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) today reports an increased presence of Government of Sudan Police near the Kalma camp housing displaced persons in Nyala. On Monday, a…