News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

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 total of 347 Ethiopian peackeepers has arrived since Saturday. This…

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 peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said today. General Martin Luther…

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) camp, situated 25km from the town of Nyala. Initial reports mentioned…

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 this serious incident which circumstances will be investigated. It is closely…

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 Secretary General's instructions, “we are to join our other colleagues in other…

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 the Under-Secretary of the Ministry, Dr. Mutrif Siddig and UNAMID Joint…

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 Sudan (GoS) attempting to forcibly enter the camp for executing a search…

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 worrying increase in violence in Darfur, the Secretary-General reports and…

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” over the recent tragic incidents of 25 August 2008 at the Internally…

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 congratulations on this propitious occasion. May the spirit of this holiest of time…

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 UNAMID patrol in Nyala noticed an increased police presence, with more tents…

11 September 2008 -- The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission to Darfur (UNAMID) had one of its sewage trucks carjacked today by unknown gunmen in North Darfur state.Three men approached the truck at a sewage dumping site, pointed weapons at the driver and then ordered him to move…