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UNAMID Calls for the Deployment of Nigerian Air Force Helicopters to Darfur Mission
The head of United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, has called for the deployment of Nigerian Air Force Helicopters to Darfur Mission as UNAMID needs over 30 helicopters, said a statement from the Nigerian air force...
Nigerian Troops to Remain in Darfur After Independence
Nigerian troops currently on peace-keeping mission in Darfur under the United Nations/African Union Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) are to remain there after the July 9th Independence of Southern Darfur which becomes part of Southern Sudan, Dr Ezekiel...
Water Project in North Dafur, Sudan Helps Protect Women From Sexual Violence
A water project supported by the UN-African Union peacekeeping force (UNAMID) in eight villages of North Darfur will not only facilitate residents’ access to water but also help to reduce sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the region, local...
Thousands Flee Fighting in Darfur
Tens of thousands of people continue to flee their homes in Sudan’s western region of Darfur for the safety of internally displaced people’s camps after recent fighting between government forces and armed militias.
Darfur Returning “to Past Patterns of Violence”
Fighting between government and rebel groups in North and South Darfur in western Sudan has displaced tens of thousands of people and hindered access by humanitarian workers to some affected areas, sources said.
90 Rwandan Peacekeepers Leave for Western Sudan
A ninety-strong man contingent of Rwandan police officers has left for a peacekeeping mission to the Sudanese troubled western region of Darfur. Seeing off the contingent at Kigali International Airport Thursday morning, the Commissioner General of police,...
United Nations-African Union Peacekeeping Mission And World Bank Poised to Bring Relief to War-torn Darfur
The head of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Ibrahim Gambari, on Thursday called for World Bank assistance to ensure that the “dividends of peace are made evident” to promote sustainable peace in the war-ravaged...
Abductions in Darfur
Three Russian pilots released on 30 August, two days after they were kidnapped in Darfur, were only the latest in a string of foreigners associated with humanitarian operations there to be abducted this year.
