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28 August 2008 -- The Secretary-General’s latest report on the deployment of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur covering the month of July was released in New York today. July has seen an extremely…

27 August 2008 -- On 25th August 2008, violent clashes erupted at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp of Kalma, near Nyala, the capital city of South Darfur, between military and police units of the Government of…

18 August 2008 -- At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Khartoum yesterday, the African Union – United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the Government of Sudan held their monthly Technical Committee Meeting, headed by…

19 August 2008 -- The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, (UNAMID), Headquarters, in El Fasher, observed a one minute silence in honor of UN colleagues who were killed in Iraq in 2003.Going by the…

25 August 2008 -- UNAMID sent police and military patrols to the Kalma camp, home to 80,000 internally displaced persons, to confirm this incident and lend any assistance needed. UNAMID leadership is extremely concerned by…

26 August 2008 -- On Monday, 25 August, UNAMID officials in the South Darfur Sector Headquarters of Nyala received information that Government of Sudan (GoS) armed elements were at the Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs…

12 August 2008 –Darfur’s splintered rebel movements must unite at the negotiating table if there is to be a lasting solution to the conflict in the Sudanese region, the military chief of the joint United Nations-African Union…

18 August 2008 -- With the arrival of 116 peacekeepers at El Fasher airport earlier today the advance party of the first Ethiopian Infantry Battalion to join UNAMID, the UN-AU Hybrid Operation in Darfur, has been completed. A…

12 August 2008 -- 126 Egyptian military engineers arrived in Darfur earlier today. The Egyptian Engineering Company is now fully deployed with a strength of 335 military personnel. The Egyptian Engineering company is composed…

11 August 2008 -- A helicopter belonging to the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was shot at earlier today in West Darfur.The helicopter took off from El Geneina at around noon local time and the pilot heard shots being fired…