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UNAMID Press Release 25 July 2008 JSR Adada visits convalescing UNAMID peacekeepers injured in Um Hakibah attack The AU-UN Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, today visited the peacekeepers convalescing in a Khartoum hospital who were injured in the attack at Um Hakibah in…

UNAMID Press Release 31 July 2008 JSR ADADA RECEIVES NEW RESEARCH REPORT FROM 36 NGOs ON WORLDWIDE UNAVAILABILITY OF HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID Al Fasher, 31st July, 2008: Mr. Rodolphe Adada, UNAMID’s Joint Special Representative (JSR), has reviewed a report released today, endorsed by 36 International…

UNAMID Press Release El Fasher, 28 July 2008 JSR Adada receives Darfur Consortium report The UNAMD Joint Special Representative (JSR), Mr. Rodolphe Adada today received a report titled “Putting People First,” which was compiled by the Darfur Consortium, which groups more than 50 African-based and…

The body of Late Private Losedi Boitumelo Monaisa of South African Battalion was yesterday flown home after a solemn farewell ceremony organized in her honour by her colleagues of the African Union-United Nations hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). “Late Pte Moaisa died under very distressing and…

African Union- United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) today conducted a training workshop on security coordination for senior and medium level management officers from the Sudanese Police, National Security and Military Intelligence on the mission’s mandate, the Status of Forces…

On Monday 25 August, UNAMID officials in the South Darfur Sector Headquarters of Nyala received information that Government of Sudan (GoS) armed elements were at the Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp, situated 25km from the town of Nyala. Initial reports mentioned that shots had been…

El Fasher, 30 October 2008 On Wednesday 29 October, at approximately 1800 hours, South African soldiers serving with the African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) came under attack from unidentified men who arrived in several heavily armed vehicles. At the time of the…

UNAMID Press Release The AU, UN, GoS tripartite committee for the deployment of the hybrid operation in Darfur has today launched its first meeting at the Sudanese Foreign Affairs Ministry in Khartoum . Leading the tripartite committee delegations were the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security…

The Joint Special Representative (JSR) of the African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), Mr. Rodolphe Adada, officially expressed to the Government of Sudan UNAMID’s “grave concern” over the recent tragic incidents of 25 August 2008 at the Internally Displaced Persons camp…

A contingent of 130 officers from the Indonesian Formed Police Unit (FPU) arrived in El Fasher today, aboard a special UN flight from Jakarta, at the start of a one-year tour of duty with the African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The unit was received at the airport by…

A joint Qatar/ African Union and League of Arab Sates delegation visited yesterday afternoon, the African Union United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) Headquarters for a briefing on the political, humanitarian and security situation in the mission’s area of responsibility. The joint…

UNAMID, the African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, has noted the publication, in the Rwandan newspaper The New Times dated 7 August 2008, of an article related to the ambush of a UNAMID patrol on 8 July 2008, near Um Hakibah, approximately 130 kilometers south-west of Al Fasher…