News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

26 November 2008 -- The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) investigated reports of aerial attacks by the Government of Sudan from 21 to 22 November in Abu Dangal, South Darfur, and confirmed visible effects of air strikes, including four craters created by bombing and the…

25 August 2011 - UNAMID has begun an airlift of vaccines for a three-month campaign to protect livestock herds in Darfur. The first batch of vaccines airlifted by UNAMID arrived on Wednesday and was handed over to officials of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Animal…

Aradia Adam and her family were among those who fled the Kutum area in North Darfur and settled nearly 100 kilometres away in Aramba village, Kabkabiya more than seven years ago and just recently decided to return home to begin rebuilding their community. A day before they embarked on the journey…

My name is Mohammad Sarhan and I was born in 1962 in the occupied territories of Palestine. I was born a refugee and was raised in Al Farah Refugee Camp in Nablus. During my childhood years, I was injected with what was thought to be polio vaccine; however, it turned out that I was injected with the…

On 12 January 2010, the world heard the news about Haiti’s earthquake, one of the strongest since 1770 (7.0 magnitude). Most of us were alerted and followed the news, hoping the best for the Haitians. NilarKyi, a UN volunteer working as an IT assistant for the African Union-United Nations Mission in…

While Maxwell sits to have coffee and talk to us in the UNAMID compound, in El Fasher, one hears all sort of resounding greetings and friendly slaps on the back can be heard every now and then, accompanied by references as “my brother” in both Swahili and English. As a very dear member of the UNAMID…

Open from 1 July and lasting until 30 July 2011 at United Nations headquarters in New York, Darfur up Close is the first UN sponsored photo exhibition that shows the humane side of the conflict that has displaced around 1.8 million civilians from their homes and has ignited one of Africa’s more…

My name is Chantha Muth. I am a proud son of the Kingdom of Cambodia and my story begins in my home country where I’ve worked with dedication for human rights and democracy causes for the past 20 years. Serving as a Human Rights defender in Cambodia, a nation that has experienced civil war, genocide…

UNAMID’s Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Section, represented by Ioan-Vadim Dobrea, a UN Volunteer from Romania working as a DDR Officer, was guest of honor for the celebration of the opening of a basic school in Arari village, North Darfur. The project was born on 26 July 2009…

The Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) process is one of the key factors that are at stake during the transition from a period of conflict to peace and development. Being a very complex process, with political, military, security, humanitarian and socio-economic dimensions, DDR is…

While seeking political means to put an end to violence in Darfur is paramount for UNAMID, the National Government and different partners in Sudan, Frank Adarkwah-Yiadom, from Ghana, and Aimee Mwenyi Ntumba, from Democratic Republic of Congo, have been paving the path to make Doha Declaration (Civil…

Every year on 5th December the world celebrates one of its oldest and heart-warming traditions: volunteering. International Volunteer Day (IVD) is the date when all around the world people gather to commemorate that volunteering matters, because volunteers have the power to change lives. UNV Field…