Darfur Peace Agreements: Challenges and Opportunities One year after the adoption of the Doha Peace Document, Voices of Darfur examines the evolution of the negotiations and the challenges they have faced. By Abdullahi…
UNAMID and its partners have been working with communities across Darfur to address land disputes by revitalizing traditional mechanisms for resolving such conflict. By Sharon Lukunka For many years now, land disputes in…
UNAMID’s leadership is steering the Mission into more quick-impact projects that focus on humanitarian assistance across Darfur, as a way to facilitate recovery and development in the region. By Abdullahi SHuaibu In December…
A Step in the Right Direction for Human Rights Darfur’s Family and Child Protection Unit, the first police unit of its kind in the region, is an example of how a structure can provide redress for victims of human rights…
Across Darfur, in remote areas far removed from the government’s court system, traditional conflict-resolution mechanisms are making a comeback. By Emadeldin Ali Rijal Through a series of meetings, representatives of the…
In a seven-day thobe exhibition in El Fasher, North Darfur, a local designer displays her work, which is influenced by both traditional and contemporary Sudanese fashion. By Ala Mayyahi To display more than 50 Sudanese thobes…
The security situation, the freedom of UNAMID’s movement, support to the returns of displaced people and the review of the Mission’s uniformed personnel were the main focuses of discussion on the 13th meeting of the…
On 15 June 2012, the United Nations Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon announced the appointment of Mr. Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber of Germany as his Special Representative and Head of the MINURSO.The new Special Representative of the…
On 13 June, UNAMID Joint Special Representative Ibrahim Gambari met in Khartoum with Mashood Baderin, the United Nations Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Sudan, to discuss the findings of the Independent…
Today is a solemn day for all of us in UN Peacekeeping, as we pause to reflect and honor the over 2,900 peacekeeping colleagues who have lost their lives serving the cause of peace since our first mission in 1948. We honor…
