For 13 years, United Nations and African Union peacekeepers have been stationed in the Sudanese region of Darfur.
Reducing the size of the peacekeeping mission will endanger civilians, say critics of the move
The UN’s World Food Programme says about 20 000 people have been displaced by fresh unrest in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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/ 21 January 2011
Clashes between government forces and two rebel groups in Sudan’s war-torn western region of Darfur have killed at least 21 people on the two sides.
Four SA peacekeepers from the joint UN-AU mission who were kidnapped this week in Darfur are "in good health", the mission said on Friday.
No ransom demands had been made for four South African peacekeepers kidnapped in Sudan, the UNAMID in Darfur said on Wedesday.
Sudan’s Darfur region is no longer in a state of war, the head of the area’s peacekeeping force said as he ended his tour of duty.
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/ 19 December 2008
A joint UN-AU force in Darfur continues to face ”enormous challenges” almost a year after it was established, UN chief Ban Ki-moon says.
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/ 15 December 2008
As many as 250 people have died in tribal clashes in remote parts of Sudan’s Darfur region over the last week, peacekeepers said on Monday.
Peacekeepers on Monday said they had sent reinforcements to guard a volatile camp for displaced Darfuris amid fears of a government attack.
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/ 18 September 2008
Only 13 000 of the 26 000 peacekeepers authorised for Darfur will be deployed by the end of the year, far below the 80% target.
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/ 4 September 2008
Residents of a refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region complained to peacekeepers on Thursday about the threatening presence of government troops.
It will take weeks to deploy more peacekeepers to Darfur because of the difficulties of operating in the remote region, the force commander says.
The commander of the UN-AU mission in Darfur on Tuesday urged the world community to put pressure on the fragmented insurgency in the region.
I am a war child. A survivor plagued by memories. When they open their eyes, children in Darfur see the same.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that he was worried that a Sudanese rebel group active in Darfur region appeared to be using child soldiers.
Gunmen have attacked police from the African Union and United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur for the first time, injuring one officer by beating him with a rifle butt, a UN spokesperson said on Thursday. The unarmed police were stopped at gunpoint as they returned from a routine patrol.
Sudan on Wednesday strongly denied that its army had opened fire on a United Nations convoy that was attacked in Darfur days after peacekeepers began their new mission to the troubled western Sudanese region. A Sudanese driver was critically injured, a fuel tanker truck destroyed and an armoured personnel carrier damaged late on Monday.