UNMIS Press Releases

In a joint effort between the Political Parties Affairs Council (PPAC) and UNMIS Electoral Assistance Division, and in collaboration with the National Elections Commission (NEC) and UNDP, a Workshop on "Building Confidence in Peaceful Elections" was organized today at Al Salam Rotana Hotel in…

Hosting the Independent Expert on the situation of Human Rights in the Sudan, Justice Mohamed Chande Othman Read the full transcript

JUBA – The site of the future headquarters of the United Nations in southern Sudan was formally inaugurated at a groundbreaking ceremony outside the regional capital of Juba this afternoon. The Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General for Sudan, Mr. Ashraf Qazi, attended the ceremony…

Hosting the Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service, Maxwell Kerley Read the full transcript

Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General [Political] for Sudan arrives in Khartoum The newly appointed DSRSG for Political Affairs for Sudan Jasbir Singh Lidder of India has arrived in Khartoum yesterday to assume his responsibilities with UNMIS. Mr. Lidder's appointment to head the…

A series of four Abyei villages' hall meetings was concluded yesterday in the first ever post-court ruling engagement of the area's Administration with the Misseriya and Dinka-Ngok communities. The Administration's message that "boundaries are not barriers" was positively received by some 4,000…

Hosting Director for the Africa Bureau of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Mr. George Okoth-Obbo Read the full transcript:

Hosting UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy Read the full transcript

Hosting chief of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) mission in Sudan, Jill Helke Read the full transcript

Meeting in Kadugli on 3 November 2009, the DDR Roundtable Partnership acknowledged significant progress since the launch of the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) in February this year, under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, but admitted that much was still left to be done. "We…