Press Releases

The release of $30 million for the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programme in southern Sudan was announced earlier today in Juba at the launch of the DDR programme in the region. More

The International Day of the African Child, commemorated globally on 16 June, was celebrated in Bentiu, Unity State yesterday 14 June. More

The lives of some 120 people affected by leprosy and other disease living in Mayo area in the outskirts of Khartoum are improved by the construction of 10 pit latrines that aim to provide much needed health and hygiene access…

Nairobi, 13 July 2009 – The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has expressed the hope that gains made by the Somali Security forces over the weekend will allow some stability to return to Mogadishu…

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Nairobi, 20 July 2009 – Two UN compounds were looted today in Baidoa and Wajid, Somalia. Al Shabaab men entered both compounds and took UN equipment and vehicles. In Baidoa, the looting of all emergency communication…

20 July 2009 -- The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the increasing violence in West Darfur and along the Chad-Sudan borderThe Secretary-General is disturbed by reports that bombs dropped by Chadian aircraft have…

The Secretary-General's report on the Sudan has been released and is to be presented later today to the United Nations Security Council in New York by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Ashraf Qazi…

PDF version The ongoing DDR operation in Sudan has marked yet another milestone, with the 24 March start up of the Reintegration component of the programme in Ed Damazin, Blue Nile State. Reintegration is the last and most…

As part of UNMIS support to the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) in the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), and in order to provide humanitarian assistance and protection to the civilians in the…