News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

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 and on 2011 we celebrate volunteering as an expression of our common…

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 in Africa. The venues for the four-day competition, which opened at Amahoro…

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 (WHO), is aimed at assisting prisoners who don’t have regular access to…

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), started on 5 March and is a key element of the Doha Document for Peace in…

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 - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Force Commander Lt General Patrick…

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 dissemination event in Nyala, South Darfur. The exercise “aims at delivering the…

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 most official as well as the head of the African Union-United Nations Mission…

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 gain a first-hand assessment of the humanitarian situation. The delegation…

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 returned fire, took place at approximately 16:00 hours near Shearia town, located…

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 today organized by Radio-TV El Fasher, the state broadcaster. The wind-up…

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 Darfur flew to the region today to pay tribute to his troops. “We are…

15 February 2012- Dissemination activities for the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) started this week among the communities in West and South Darfur. The exercise, which is also ongoing on Central and North Darfur, is organized by the Civil Society Follow-up Mechanism, a group of community…