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7 October 2008 -- The Secretary-General strongly condemns yesterday’s attack by a group of about 40 to 60 armed men on a convoy of UNAMID (African Union/United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur) troops on a route assessment…

7 October 2008 – The “severely stretched” United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, which has struggled to find enough countries willing to supply troops and equipment, should now reach two-thirds of its full…

7 October 2008 -- The AU, UN, GoS tripartite committee for the deployment of the hybrid operation in Darfur has today launched its first meeting at the Sudanese Foreign Affairs Ministry in Khartoum. Leading the tripartite…

7 October 2008 – A group of peacekeepers serving with the joint United Nations-African Union operation in Darfur were ambushed yesterday afternoon while on patrol. UNAMID spokesperson Kemal Saiki announced that one Nigerian…

5 October 2008 -- A UNAMID Military Force from Nyala, Sector South, was dispatched to Kalma camp to reinforce the UNAMID Police at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, as a result of recent alleged threats of attack…

6 October 2008 -- The newly appointed United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy, arrived in Khartoum today, on his first visit to the country since he assumed his post. Mr. Le Roy is…

2 October 2008 -- A total of 189 individual Police Advisors from twelve countries, including 17 female officers, have arrived in Darfur in the last month to join the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation (UNAMID)…

29 September 2008 – Participants to the first Radio Journalism Training Course organized by the Communication and Public Information Division (CPID) of UNAMID, the African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur…

24 September 2008 – The body of Late Private Losedi Boitumelo Monaisa of the South African Battalion was flown home yesterday after a solemn farewell ceremony organized in her honour by her colleagues of the African Union…

23 September 2008 – UNAMID today conducted a training workshop on security coordination for senior and medium level management officers from the Sudanese Police, National Security and Military Intelligence on the mission’s…