Darfur Peace and Development

05 August 2010 – Sixty community leaders from the Ottash IDP camp, located on the outskirts of Nyala in South Darfur, yesterday concluded a three-day workshop organized by UNAMID Police and the State’s Drug Control Committee on drug and alcohol abuse.

The workshop was part of a series of sensitization seminars aimed at providing participants with basic information about the effects of substance abuse on the body, the consequences of addiction…

04 August 2010 – WFP and UNAMID representatives met this morning in El Fasher, North Darfur, to finalize plans for the Mission to provide security escorts during the rainy season for WFP trucks transporting food to impoverished beneficiaries throughout Darfur.

The WFP representatives voiced appreciation for the Mission’s continued support, which will also include helping to expedite the agency’s inter-state movements and escorting overnight WFP missions…

2 August 2010 — “The Secretary-General is saddened by the death of four UNAMID peacekeepers from Sierra Leone, in a traffic collision in Nyala, South Darfur on Sunday, 1 August 2010′.” according to a statement attributable to his spokesman.

“The Secretary-General would like to convey his sincere condolences to the Government of Sierra Leone and to the families of the four soldiers. He hopes for a full recovery of two additional…

02 August 2010 – A traffic collision in Nyala, South Darfur, yesterday evening resulted in the deaths of three UNAMID military peacekeepers from Sierra Leone. Another who was critically injured in the accident was evacuated to Khartoum, but passed way early this morning.

UNAMID Deputy Joint Special Representative Mohamed Yonis is today in Nyala to pay his respects to the Sierra Leonean troops…

02 August 2010- Over seventy participants, including Government representatives, local community leaders, members of North Darfur’s humanitarian community and UNAMID senior officials, today convened in El Fasher, North Darfur, for the launch of a high-level, three day workshop on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and Community Security and Arms Control (CSAC).

The event, organized jointly with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the North Sudan DDR (NSDDR) and the CSAC, is aimed…

01 August 2010 – UNAMID Deputy Joint Special Representative (DJSR) and acting Chief of Mission Mohammed Yonis today made a field visit to South Darfur, where he met with the State’s Wali (Governor) and leaders of the troubled Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, where conflicts over IDP participation in the Doha peace process negotiations recently turned violent, resulting in fatalities estimated, according to different sources, at between five and…

El Fasher, 30 July 2010 – Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have gathered around UNAMID’s Community Policing Centre (CPC) outside Kalma IDP camp in South Darfur, following violent confrontations yesterday which claimed several lives.

Tensions sparked by recent clashes over IDPs’ participation in the Doha peace process negotiations peaked yesterday afternoon, when hundreds of IDPs took to the streets of the camp, some protesting the talks, others supporting them. Many…

El Fasher, 30 July 2010 – Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have gathered around UNAMID’s Community Policing Centre (CPC) outside Kalma IDP camp in South Darfur, following violent confrontations yesterday which claimed several lives.

Tensions sparked by recent clashes over IDPs’ participation in the Doha peace process negotiations peaked yesterday afternoon, when hundreds of IDPs took to the streets of the camp, some protesting the talks, others supporting them. Many…

El Fasher, 29 July 2010 – The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) confirms that a Russian pilot, previously unaccounted for following an incident earlier this week, was this evening safely returned to UNAMID’s base in Nyala, South Darfur.

At 17:15hrs today a UNAMID helicopter carrying Sudanese and Mission Security Officers took off from Nyala. The team landed in Oum Sader, approximately 55 km north of Nyala and 50 kilometers…

29 July 2010 – Three people reported to be supporters or members of the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), which recently signed a ceasefire agreement with the Government of the Sudan authorities in Doha, were killed yesterday in Hamadiya Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Zalingei, West Darfur. Fighting had broken out at about 1800 hours between IDPs backing LJM and those supporting the Sudan Liberation Army-Abdul Wahid (SLA-AW) faction…