Volunteering for Darfur Matters - Photo Exhibition
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…
10th Anniversary of International Year of Volunteers
In 2001, UN General Assembly proclaimed that year as International Year of Volunteers in recognition of the valuable contribution and further potential of volunteerism for economic and social development. 10 years have passed…
14 Mar 12 - UNAMID joins in first-ever United Nations Games in Africa
14 March 2012 - Rwanda today plays host to the United Nations African Games. More than 500 athletes from five UN offices and missions are taking part in the historic event, which marks the first time the games have been held…
UNAMID peacekeepers with a pacient at Nyala prison. Photo by Kone Mouroulaye, UNAMID.
UNAMID provides medical assistance to Nyala prison
13 March 2012 - UNAMID launched today a two-day medical camp for inmates at Nyala Central prison, South Darfur. The exercise, organized in collaboration with the State Ministry of Health and the UN World Health Organization…
11 Mar 12 - UNAMID concludes verification exercise of armed movement
11 March 2012 - The verification of the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) military disposition concluded this weekend in Darfur. The exercise, undertaken by the African Union – United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)…
06 Mar 12 - Primary school funded by UNAMID inaugurated in North Darfur
6 March 2012 - A new school to accommodate more than 500 students was yesterday inaugurated in Turba village, located between El Fasher and the Zam Zam internally displaced persons (IDP) in North Darfur, by African Union -…
04 Mar 12 - Peace document officially launched in South Darfur
The Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), the culmination of two years of peace negotiations between the Government of the Sudan and the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), was yesterday officially launched at a…
01 Mar 12 - Students debate political, economic solutions toward sustaining peace
01 Mar 12 - More than 300 students at North Darfur's main university today debated over whether an economic or political solution was the answer to the conflict in Darfur. The annual debate, attended by the State's senior…
29 Feb 2012-UK Minister, delegation focus on humanitarian development in Darfur
29 February 2012 - Officials of the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) lead by Stephen O'Brien, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, today visited Darfur to a…
29 Feb 2012- UNAMID peacekeeper killed in ambush in South Darfur
29 February 2012- An ambush today by unknown gunmen on an African Union – United Nations Mission (UNAMID) patrol in South Darfur has left one peacekeeper dead and three injured. The incident, in which the peacekeepers…
28 Feb 2012-UNAMID donates self-powered radio sets to Darfur’s disabled
El Fasher—Disabled people of Darfur need full access to information, particularly from radio. That was the objective behind the provision of 30 wind-up and solar-operated radios to the El Fasher Association for the Disabled…
22 Feb 2012- UNAMID Force Commander congratulates troops in northwestern Drafur
Umm Baru—Having led the operation which succeeded in the return of a UNAMID patrol which had been blocked by rebel forces for two days in northwestern Darfur, the Force Commander of the African Union-United Nations Mission in…