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14 May 2008 – The Darfur conflict could lapse soon into another major cycle of violence and large-scale human displacement unless the parties retreat from their recent state of confrontation, the top United Nations…

22 May 2008 – A Nigerian battalion serving with the hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has been ambushed by dozens of men armed with machine guns, rifles and rocket-propelled grenades…

23 May 2008 -- On 21 May, four UNAMID peacekeepers were ambushed by a group of 60 men armed with semi-automatic weapons on the outskirts of El Geneina. The UNAMID personnel were not hurt, but their effects and weapons were…

9 May 2008 –Speaking out against the recent stepped up violence between the Sudanese Government’s forces and a rebel group, the United Nations and African Union (AU) envoys spearheading efforts to reach a durable political…

10 May 2008 –United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced grave concern over the fighting spurred by attacks by the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces that has broken out on the outskirts of the…

2 May 2008 -- UN/AU peacekeeping forces (UNAMID) succeeded, today, in organizing an operation to air-lift wounded civilians, following SAF air attacks on the village of Umm Sidir in North Darfur, yesterday.The evacuation was…

El Fasher, 27 April 2008 --- UNAMID is deeply shocked and profoundly disturbed by the cold-blooded murder of Mohammed Makki El Rasheed, a truck driver working for United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday 21 April…

30 April 2008 –The head of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, known as UNAMID, said today that he is just as anxious as people on the ground are for progress. “It has almost been 3 months into the…

22 April 2008-- In a briefing to the UN Security Council on the situation in Darfur, the UN / AU Joint Special Representative, Rodolphe Adada, appealed to member states to redouble efforts to assist the Mission overcome the…

19 April 2008 –The United Nations and African Union envoys spearheading efforts to devise a durable political settlement to the five-year conflict in Darfur have held several days of talks in the Sudanese region with…