Darfur Peace and Development

May 11, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Darfur’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) warned of deteriorating humanitarian situation in western Sudan stressing that only 10% of them receive food rations.

Humanitarian agencies have been providing assistance to displaced people since the conflict began in 2003. However many were thrown out of the country in 2009 after Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity – and the next year…

May 12, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — North Darfur governor Osman Mohamed Youssef Kibir stated Saturday that rebel groups are preparing to carry out attacks in the region after a decrease of violence in western Sudan.

Darfur peacekeeping mission and foreign observers agreed that Darfur region witnessed a period of relative calm after the signing of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) in July 2011.

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December 19, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — A former Janhaweed leader called for a military action to protect the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) in order to ensure its enforcement and end the over eight-year insurgency in western Sudan.

Italian aid worker released after 4 months of abduction in Darfur
December 16, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese security service today released an Italian aid worker kidnapped in South Darfur states since four months and arrested six of his kidnappers.

The United Nations announced today that Sudan needs some $1.06 billion for humanitarian and recovery projects in Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan as well as the east of the country.

September 28, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Five international staff and four Sudanese nationals were kidnapped in Darfur by unknown gunmen on 9 September, a UN source disclosed today.

The incident occurred at Umraik village in North Darfur, which is approximately 30 km North East of Ana Bagi and 65km North west of Kutum. The group was traveling from El Fasher to Chad at the time.

September 29, 2011 (PARIS) — Foreign minister Ali Karti said yesterday that Sudan can allow aid groups to work in Blue Nile and southern Kordofan only when the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) stops the fighting in the two troubled provinces.

The fight broke out between Sudanese army and rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the two states bordering the Republic of South Sudan, since June for South Kordofan and Blue Nile in September.

September 25, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — A Darfur rebel group accused the Sudanese government of killing two people in an attack carried out in North Darfur, while the peacekeeping mission reported firing of rockets in South Darfur.

Despite the deteriorating humanitarian conditions where the displaced civilians in Darfur camps receive a third of their needs since more than a year ago, the security situation according to the UNAMID witnesses a relative improvement.

August 16, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s president Omer Al-Bashir will announce a new government makeup that will see the country’s cabinet being halved and security apparatus bifurcated, according to officials from his ruling party.

Al-Bashir’s National Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday announced that the new government will be formed in late August before Eid Al-Fitr holiday which follows the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

August 15, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — An Italian aid worker has been abducted yesterday in the capital of South Darfur state by an unidentified group of armed men, the UNAMID and Italian government said today.

The logistics specialist was kidnapped on Sunday while he is was in the rout to the airport with two Sudanese colleagues, the UN hybrid mission said Monday. The abductors who were dressed in plain clothes took Francesco Azzara after stooping the car.