News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Khartoum, 1 April 2010 – Well-known BBC presenter of Sudanese origin, Ms. Zeinab Badawi, spent time with the Hakama women singing group and watched them perform at the Tayeba displaced persons camp in Khartoum North. The…

Russian crews performed their final maintenance checks as helicopters were dispatched one by one to remote corners of Southern Sudan on 6 April. Heading west to Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State, UN Oscar 581 was…

Newly appointed UNMIS Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Haile Menkerios made a three-day familiarization tour of Southern Sudan beginning 29 March. The SRSG was in the south to orient himself with the…

Although they may not be perfect, elections were the greatest chance Sudan had to become democratic, commissioners of the National Elections Commission (NEC) told a Khartoum press conference on 10 April. Addressing…

There was a definite buzz in the air at the polling centre located at the Abogesesa School in Malakal on the first day of voting in Sudan's historic general election. Excited voters began to queue outside the facility as…

When Sudan held its last elections over two decades ago, Maria Majok of Warrap State was just a baby on her mother's back. "My mother told me that I was a three-month-old baby when she participated in the elections 24 years…

At a quiet voting station in Khartoum's upscale Riyad area around noon on the second day of Sudan's poll, about five women were sitting in the shade of a tree and some men lingering around. Hayat Saleh, a middle-aged woman…

Balloting in the Western Bahr El Ghazal state capital of Wau began on time Monday morning, and among the voters who went to the polls on Day Two of Sudan's historic general election was Francis Fongo, a blind retiree of 67…

Lagge James wasn't going to let anything get in the way of exercising his citizen's right to vote in Sudan's 2010 general election. The 26-year-old resident of the Central Equatoria State town of Mangalla stood in line for…

Taking an afternoon break on the third, rather slow polling day in Dim, a poorer area of Khartoum, volunteer polling staffer Mai El Said was sitting under a tree with a friend. "I wanted to do this for the country," she said…

The plague of inter-communal violence that affected much of Southern Sudan last year took its toll on the residents of the Upper Nile State town of Bienythiang. Tribal clashes erupted in the predominantly Dinka community of 2…

Moses Loboyong is no run-of-the-mill first-time voter in Sudan's first national multi-party elections in 24 years. He is a deaf-mute resident of the Central Equatoria State county of Kajo Keji, and when the time came to cast…