News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

11 April 2011 - UNAMID peace keepers from the Mission’s Thai battalion stationed in Mukjar, West Darfur, have begun drilling a well for a nearby elementary school. Once complete, the borehole has the capacity to provide thousands of liters of potable water each day for the community. The initiative…

07 April 2011 - UNAMID’s peacekeepers today paid respect to the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In three months, the mass killing claimed more than 800,000 lives. In a ceremony at the Mission’s headquarters in El Fasher, North Darfur, Force Commander Lt Gen Patrick Nyamvumba, from Rwanda…

07 April 2011 - A Canadian delegation led by the Chargé d'affaires of the Canadian Embassy in Sudan Laurent Charette today concluded in Nyala, South Darfur, a one-week visit to UNAMID regional offices in the three Darfur states. The team conferred with Mission’s leadership and with the Formed Police…

05 April 2011 - More than 100 local community leaders today met with UNAMID Civil Affairs in Zalingei, West Darfur, to discuss the promotion of effective and inclusive good governance, at the start of a two-day seminar. The participants included representatives of native administration, teachers’…

05 April 2011 - UNAMID police peacekeepers in Graida, South Darfur, concluded a two-day training course for 25 government police officers, which covered UNAMID’s mandate, international standards for law enforcement and human rights. The workshop, which included a class in basic computer skills, is…

05 April 2011 - Deputy Joint Special Representative Mohamed Yonis today received a delegation led by Ghanaian Ambassador to the Sudan, Mr. Amin Amidu Sulemani, at UNAMID headquarters in El Fasher, North Darfur. The Ambassador was briefed on UNAMID’s most recent achievements and challenges in the…

05 April 2011 - One UNAMID peacekeeper has been killed after an attack by a group of armed men on a Mission patrol this afternoon near Kutum, North Darfur. The convoy was ambushed while returning nearby from Fata Borno. Peacekeepers swiftly responded and, in an exchange of fire, one of the attackers…

04 April 2011 - UNAMID is currently investigating a 2 April incident at the Khamsa Dagaig Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, in which seven unknown armed men reportedly entered the camp and began shooting sporadically, before robbing a local shop. Two people from Khamsa Dagaig, located 7 km…

04 April 2011 - A verification team has also been dispatched to Hashaba, located 43 km northeast of Kutum in North Darfur, after reports of air strikes on 2 April. The Mission has also been actively monitoring tribal tensions in Hashaba where a dispute over livestock theft escalated and led to an…

04 April 2011 - The outcome of a working-level meeting of the African Union, United Nations and Government of the Sudan Tripartite Mechanism has highlighted a higher level of continued cooperation between the three parties. UNAMID Deputy Joint Special Representative Mohamed Yonis headed the Mission…

03 April 2011 - UNAMID Force Commander Lt Gen Patrick Nyamvumba today inaugurated an elementary school built by members of the Mission’s Rwandan military contingent. UNAMID Force Commander visits the new school in Turba with the local leaders. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran During the event the…

31 March 2011 - UNAMID yesterday conducted a visit to Mirair village, located about 53 kilometres northeast of Nyala, South Darfur, where the Mission’s Quick Impact Projects program funded the construction of two classrooms and one office at the Mirair Nomadic School. The project was implemented by…