News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

05 May 2011 - UNAMID distributed yesterday more than one hundred high-capacity rolling water containers to residents of Gurrer village, a nomadic settlement located about 52 kilometers northeast of Kutum, North Darfur. These carriers are devices for transporting water more easily than traditional…

04 May 2011 - The Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Ibrahim Gambari, today hosted the United States Special Envoy for Sudan, Princeton Lyman, during his first visit to the El Fasher headquarters of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), since the Envoy's…

04 May 2011 - The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) president, Margaret Biggs, conducted today a one-day visit to El Fasher, North Darfur. Biggs met with the JSR Ibrahim Gambari and was briefed on the political, security and humanitarian developments in the region. Afterward, she…

04 May 2011 - UNAMID handed over today four newly-built classrooms and two offices in Aamal Basic School in Nyala, South Darfur, to the State Minister of Education. The project, financed by UNAMID’s Quick Impact Projects initiative and implemented by the local NGO Alajial Organization for Maternity…

03 May 2011 - A UNAMID-organized workshop on the roles of traditional leaders and civil society organizations in democratic systems concluded today in Um Kadada, North Darfur. The objective was to build local capacities and knowledge of democratic systems to facilitate the Mission’s efforts in…

20 April 2011 - In a continuing effort to improve law enforcement facilities throughout Darfur, UNAMID has today donated computers to all prisons in the three Darfur states. The equipment was handed over in a ceremony at the Office of the Director of North Darfur Prisons in El Fasher, North Darfur…

17 April 2011 - UNAMID Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari today travelled to Nyala, South Darfur, where he met with the state government, UN personnel and representatives of the humanitarian community. The JSR met with the Wali of South Darfur, Mr. Abdulhameed Musa Kasha, who…

17 April 2011 - Today marked the launch of a UNAMID-supported disarmament programme in El Geneina, West Darfur, through which more than 1,000 former fighters in the Darfur conflict will surrender their weapons and begin the process of reintegration into civilian life. The ex-combatants are former…

14 April 2011 - A delegation of eight women ambassadors from around the world and accredited to the African Union, arrived today in El Fasher, North Darfur, to meet with UNAMID officials, women’s groups and female legislators in the region and to hear their concerns. The group, led by Kenya’s…

13 April 2011 - UNAMID is currently verifying through its team sites recent reports of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and rebel groups. Patrols planned within the past several days to these areas have been unable to proceed due to logistical difficulties and denial of access by…

13 April 2011 - UNAMID, OCHA and camp leaders have successfully mediated the release of twelve Sudanese aid workers who were taken hostage by a youth group at Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in South Darfur. The aid workers had been taken on 11 April in retaliation for the arrests of…

11 April 2011 - Twenty-five police officers from Nyala, South Darfur, took part today in a seminar organized by UNAMID on investigative techniques and international human rights standards. The participants discussed their duties as law enforcement officials, protection of witnesses and evidence…