11 Oct 10 - South Darfur tribes sign peace deal
11 October 2010 - Leaders of the Rizeigat and Fur tribes signed an agreement yesterday in Nyala, South Darfur, committing the two tribes to peaceful coexistence and easing years of ethnic tensions. Among those witnessing the event was the Wali of South Darfur who expressed his government’s…
11 Oct 10 - Human rights training for West Darfur prison officials
11 October 2010 - UNAMID yesterday kicked off a five-day training seminar for 30 police officers from the Ardamata prison compound, located on the outskirts of El Geneina, West Darfur. The workshop, led by the Mission’s Rule of Law component and backed by UNDP, aims at training prison staff in…
06 Oct 10 Security situation update
A UNAMID patrol was ambushed yesterday 16 km south west of Kutum, North Darfur. A group of about seven armed men opened fire on the patrol, which was escorting a water tanker. The attackers fled when the UNAMID soldiers returned fire. The peacekeepers sustained no injuries but two APC’s tires were…
06 Oct 10 - High-Level Committee on Farm Protection convened in West Darfur
06 October 2010 - UNAMID and the UN Country Team attended yesterday the regular High-Level Committee on Farm Protection of West Darfur at the office of the state Wali in El-Geneina. Also present at the meeting were several representatives of the Legislative Council of West Darfur, Military…
08 Oct 10 Security situation update
In the early evening hours of 7 October, a UNAMID international civilian staff member was abducted from his accommodation in El Fasher, North Darfur. In the incident, three peacekeepers were taken from their residence by three gunmen, who left in a UNAMID vehicle that was parked next to their…
05 Oct 10 - Doha Follow up Mechanism meets in El Fasher
05 October 2010 - The AU-UN Mediation team, UNAMID and the Doha Follow-up Mechanism, which includes the participants in the second Civil Society Conference held in Doha in July 2010, started today a two-day meeting in El Fasher, North Darfur. Nearly a hundred delegates from Civil So ciety groups in…
30 Sept 10 - Dissemination of Doha Declaration in Nyala
30 September 2010 - An in-depth series of seminars set up for the dissemination of the final communiqué of the Doha peace talks continues in all three Darfur states. Yesterday, the Civil Society’s Mechanism for dissemination of the Declaration organized a workshop in Nyala, South Darfur…
28 Sept 10 - UNAMID stresses commitment to returnees along Chadian border
28 September 2010 - UNAMID yesterday met with a delegation of the native administration from the towns of Tine and Kornoi, located along the Sudan’s northwest border with Chad, to discuss significant issues affecting the area. The group highlighted the plight of their people owing to the conflict in…
27 Sept 10 - Mission adopts confidence-building strategy
27 September 2010 - UNAMID has adopted a community confidence-building strategy which aims at focusing on the Mission’s efforts towards enhancing community confidence through the targeted use of quick impact projects; identification and allocation of additional funding and resources for key priority…
22 Sept 10 - South Darfur civil society discusses referendum
22 September 2010 - The January 2011 South Sudan referendum was the subject of yesterday’s monthly forum of state civil society organizations convened by UNAMID’s Civil Affairs section in Nyala, South Darfur. The twenty-five participants represented native administrations, youth, women and nomadic…
22 Sept 10 - Security situation update
22 September 2010 - UNAMID is currently actively monitoring an area near Gosdiga, 19 kilometres northwest of Kulbus, West Darfur, after locals reported to a Mission patrol team that unidentified armed men entered the mosque and assaulted a villager. The incident has been reported to local…