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/ 31 October 2007
A bolstered United Nations-African Union force charged with bringing peace to Sudan’s ravaged Darfur region ”may be” operational by early next year, the head of the mission said on Wednesday. Rodolphe Adada made the announcement during the inauguration of the new force’s headquarters in Darfur’s main city of Al-Fasher.
Awatef Ahmed Isaac is something of a celebrity in the dusty Darfur town of Al-Fasher where the handwritten dispatches she pins to the same tree each week are the main source of independent news. Awatef’s journal, Al-Raheel (The Journey), pays tribute to the two million people forced to flee their homes.