News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

18 August 2011 - UNAMID troops started today a six-day medical campaign in North Darfur. The exercise, aimed at providing urgent medical assistance to the local population, will visit four villages, Gurra Farjawi, Kuma, Dar Assalam and Shangil Tobaya. The villages have been selected due to difficult…

18 August 2011 - At the invitation of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Jean Ping, UNAMID Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari visited Addis Ababa for consultations on 16 and 17 August 2011. During their meeting, the JSR briefed his host on recent developments on…

15 August 2011 - An International aid worker working for an INGO was kidnapped yesterday in Nyala, South Darfur. The victim was in car with two Sudanese colleagues driving to the airport when four unidentified armed men, dressed in civilian clothes, stopped them. The perpetrators forced all…

15 August 2011 - The Dutch Special Envoy for Sudan, Desiree Bonis, accompanied by the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Khartoum, arrived today in El Fasher, North Darfur, for a two-day visit to the region. The delegation was welcomed by UNAMID’s Joint Special Representative, Ibrahim Gambari, at the…

11 August 2011 - Upon his return to El Fasher, Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari said today in a briefing to staff that he had assured Government of Sudan officials whom he met in Khartoum over 9 and 10 August that the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur would fully…

10 August 2011 - UNAMID, through its Quick Impact Projects program, has funded the construction of two classrooms and a fence for the El Wadi Primary School in Saraf Omra, North Darfur. The center is a new basic school for girls which will allow 500 girls to transfer from distant and overcrowded…

09 August 2011 - The UNAMID South African contingent based in Kutum, North Darfur, celebrated today their national women’s day, recalling the massive, women-led protest on 9 August, 1956 in Pretoria to end the pass book system, one of the degrading tools of apartheid. Deputy Joint Special…

8 August 2011 - An inter-agency mission with the participation of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNICEF, UNHCR, World Health Organization, Food and Agricultural Organization, Danish Refugee Council and UNAMID departed on 7 August from Zalingei to West Jebel Marra. The aim of…

5 August 2011 - A UNAMID peacekeeper was killed and a second seriously injured when their vehicle carrying five troops came under attack by four gunmen at 1040 hours today in Duma Village, 37 kilometres northeast of Nyala in South Darfur. Sudan government police transported the victims to a hospital…

3 August 2011 - Twenty Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers died and another 30 were injured yesterday in El Geneina, West Darfur, when two buildings where they were staying in collapsed as a result of heavy rain storms. Following the tragedy, UNAMID assisted by providing a crane and other lifting…

1 August 2011 - Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso and former Joint Chief Mediator for Darfur, Djibrill Bassolé, visited today his country’s troops stationed in UNAMID Team Site at Foro Baranga, located approximately 150 km south of El Geneina, in West Darfur. Mr. Bassolé was briefed by the…

27 July 2011 - A UNAMID patrol investigating reports of recent air strikes in the vicinity of Abu Hamara, located approximately 20 kilometers west of Khor Abeche, in South Darfur has confirmed that such strikes took place, resulting in the death of one civilian and two wounded. UNAMID also noted…