Sudan (Darfur)
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UNAMID
African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UN-Mandatiert)
Beginn: 01/08
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Six Darfur rebel factions to boycott peace talks (23.10.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) A prominent Darfur rebel figure and five other smaller factions will not attend peace talks due to start this weekend in Libya, leaders said on Tuesday, casting doubt on prospects for a settlement. Ahmed Abdel Shafi told reporters at a Darfur rebel meeting in south Sudan’s capital Juba that African Union and United Nations mediators had not heeded rebel requests for a delay to allow them to form a united position and agree on a delegation.
Three soldiers killed in Darfur camp attack – UN (22.10.2007)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Three Sudanese soldiers were killed when government forces attacked a refugee camp in Darfur, the second assault reported on a shelter for displaced people in less than a week, the United Nations said on Monday. The fighting, at Hamidiya camp near the western town of Zalengei, was the latest in a series of clashes just days before planned peace talks between Sudan's government and rebel groups.
UN seeks helicopters for Darfur force (22.10.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) The United Nations is intensively lobbying countries to provide helicopters for a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, one of many obstacles to starting the mission effectively on January 1. Officials and diplomats say no country has made a credible offer to provide the 24 transport and attack helicopters needed for the 26,000-strong force, whose mission is already clouded by lack of full commitment by the Sudanese government.
Madagascan troops ready to go to Darfur (16.10.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Over 300 Madagascan armymen are ready to join the Southern African Development Community (SADC) standby brigade in a mission to restore peace in Darfur, southwest Sudan, local media reported on Monday. A two-week military maneuver aimed at improving military competence and know-how in case of intervention, was closed in the northern part of the country on Saturday.
Darfur rebels seek pre-talks deal (15.10.2007)
(Quelle: BBC) Several Darfur rebel groups are meeting in Sudan's southern city of Juba in an attempt to find a common negotiating position with the government. At least seven rebel factions have gathered, in advance of peace talks due in Libya later this month. But the BBC's Amber Henshaw in Sudan says the sheer number of rebel groups from Darfur is causing problems for the organisers of the Libya talks. There are at least a dozen groups, each with their own demands and grievances. More factions are expected to join the talks in the next day or so.
Nigeria sends 800 troops to Darfur (15.10.2007)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Nigeria dispatched 800 troops to Darfur Sunday to join the African Union peacekeeping force in the troubled western Sudan region. The country sent 200 of its troops Darfur on October 8 after seven of its troops were killed by Darfur rebels at the end of September. The General Officer Commanding the 3 Division of the Nigerian army, Major-General Olakunle Akinyemi, who dispatched the troops Sunday, warned against indiscipline.
Rebel SLM-Unity threatens to snub Darfur peace talks (15.10.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) A Darfur rebel group threatened Monday to pull out of peace talks with Khartoum due later this month, following the decision of former rebels to withdraw from the Sudanese government. Sharif Harir, a leader and spokesperson of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) Unity faction, said negotiations on the western Darfur region were impossible following the pullout of Sudan’s former southern rebels from the government of national unity (GNU) in Khartoum.
Experts says govt and rebels violated Darfur arms embargo (12.10.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Sudanese authorities and rebel groups in the western Darfur region have violated a UN Security Council arms embargo, a panel of experts has said. According to a report compiled by the panel following investigations from September 2006 to August 2007, the government airlifted arms and equipment into Darfur’s three provincial capitals, El Fasher, Nyala and El Geneina. These included military airplanes and helicopters. … There was no immediate reaction to the report from either the Sudanese government or the various rebel groups in Darfur.
Land problems delaying roll-out of UN peace mission in Darfur – Ban Ki-moon (10.10.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) The timeline for implementing the hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation in Darfur is being delayed because of difficulties in obtaining land to house the mission offices and staff accommodations and problems relating to the list of troop-contributing countries, says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In his latest progress oreportn the mission, which is known as UNAMID, Mr. Ban writes that the UN is waiting for feedback from the Sudanese Government on the list of troop-contributing countries.
MSF pull out of town in Darfur (10.10.2007)
(Quelle: BBC) The medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres has pulled 16 staff out of a Sudanese rebel-controlled town in south Darfur after fierce fighting this week. MSF said its staff left after patients fled the only hospital in Muhajiriya and mortar fire intensified on Tuesday. The only Darfur rebel group to sign a 2006 peace accord blames the army for the assault and says dozens have died. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) says it is now reviewing its relationship with the Sudan government.
Arms continue to flow into Darfur, Security Council expert panel finds (10.10.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) The Sudanese Government and rebel groups in Darfur continue to violate the Security Council arms embargo, sending heavy weapons, small arms, ammunition and other military equipment into the war-torn region over the past year, a panel of experts set up to monitor the ban says in a new report. The panel finds that the Government has shipped arms and equipment – including military airplanes and helicopters – by air into the airports of Darfur’s three provincial capitals, El Fasher, Nyala and El Geneina.
UN envoy holds talks in Khartoum to prepare for peace negotiations (10.10.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations Special Envoy for Darfur held talks today with senior officials from the Sudanese Government and neighbouring countries to finalize preparations for major peace negotiations later this month that will try to end the conflict that has ravaged the region in western Sudan since 2003. Jan Eliasson met with Sudanese presidential adviser and chief negotiator Nafie Ali Nafie in the capital, Khartoum, UN spokesperson Michele Montas told reporters.
Thailand to send 800 troops to join Darfur force (10.10.2007)
(Quelle: The Daily Star (Beirut)) Thailand's Cabinet on Tuesday committed to sending 800 troops to join a UN-African Union peacekeeping force due to begin operating in Sudan's strife-torn Western Darfur region later this year. … Thai troops would join the so-called AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) before the end of the year and stay for 12 months, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Rebel groups threaten to boycott Darfur peace process (08.10.2007)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) Khalil Ibrahim, one of the most important rebel leaders in the strife-torn Sudanese province of Darfur, has threatened to boycott planned peace talks in Libyan, BBC radio reported Saturday. Ibrahim's Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) would not go to Tripoli if more than two rebel groups were invited to the talks, the BBC reported. If splinter groups are also invited, the talks would be chaotic and would have little point, Ibrahim said.
Sudanese army on Darfur offensive (08.10.2007)
(Quelle: BBC) The only Darfur rebel faction to sign a May 2006 peace deal with Khartoum says it is under attack from government forces and allied Janjaweed militia. Khalid Abakar, of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) faction led by Minni Minnawi, said the town of Muhajiriya, which they control, was half-burned. The SLA told the BBC the assault was a continuation of a Sudanese army offensive on Haskanita. That town was razed to the ground and looted while under government control.
Joint UN-AU peacekeeping force in Darfur still missing key capacities (08.10.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) The hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation that will be deployed in the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan has shortfalls in several key aviation and ground transport capacities, senior UN officials today, warning that the mission’s ability to carry out its basic work will be in jeopardy unless those gaps are quickly filled. The mission is on track to reach its benchmarks for the deployment of initial essential personnel before January, when it is scheduled to take over from the existing AU mission, Assistant Secretary-General Jane Holl Lute told reporters in New York.
Darfur town where AU peacekeepers were attacked burned down – UN (07.10.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) The South Darfur town of Haskanita that witnessed a deadly attack against African Union (AU) peacekeepers last weekend has been burned down, the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported today. Haskanita, “which is currently under the control of the Government, was completely burned down, except for a few buildings,” UNMIS said today, after conducting a joint assessment mission to the area yesterday with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Nigeria to send more troops to Darfur (06.10.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) The Nigerian armed forces say more troops will leave for Sudan on Monday, apparently unperturbed by the loss of seven soldiers to an attack by Darfur rebels on Sunday. Chief of Defense Staff, Gen. Andrew Azazi, made the hint on Friday in Abuja at the burial of the slain soldiers, conducted in full military tradition. The defense chief said the circumstances leading to the death of the soldiers would spur the armed forces to make national service paramount.
Ethiopia pledges 5,000 peacekeepers to Darfur mission (05.10.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Ethiopia on Thursday said it will contribute 5,000 troops to the proposed 26,000 joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s war torn Darfur region.
Elders seek 'fair' Darfur talks (04.10.2007)
(Quelle: BBC) A group of elder statesmen has said peace talks on Darfur due to be held in Libya need to be more inclusive. After visiting Sudan's war-torn western region, the Elders, led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, said displaced people living in camps must be represented. The Elders went to Darfur to see and hear for themselves the conditions that people in camps must endure. They urged the international community to speed up the deployment of 26,000 UN and African Union peacekeepers.
Senegal threatens to pull out of A.U. force (04.10.2007)
(Quelle: Washington Post) Senegal threatened Monday to withdraw its more than 500 troops from Darfur, moving the African Union's beleaguered peacekeeping mission closer to collapse after a spectacular militia attack over the weekend left 10 A.U. soldiers dead and dozens more missing or wounded. The attack, the deadliest since A.U. forces arrived in the Sudanese region three years ago, highlighted the vulnerability of a 7,000-person force that is outgunned and ill-equipped to quell a conflict that has grown steadily more complex. … Senegal, with the third-largest number of troops in Darfur now, was expected to be a key player in any future force.
Swedish troops to Darfur (04.10.2007)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) The Government will present a Bill to the Riksdag today proposing Swedish participation in UNAMID, the African Union/United Nations Hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur. The Swedish and Norwegian governments have notified the UN that they will contribute a joint engineer force of around 400 people to UNAMID, which will take over from the AU-led force by the end of this year at the latest. The Swedish contingent will comprise at most 160 people.
Political negotiations the only way to resolve Darfur crisis, Sudan tells UN (03.10.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) The only way to end the Darfur conflict is through political negotiations, Sudan’s Foreign Minister told the General Assembly today, pledging his Government’s full support of peace talks later this month and calling on all of Darfur’s many rebel groups to end hostilities and participate. Speaking during the last day of the annual high-level debate, Lam Akol noted that his Government has already declared a unilateral ceasefire that will start with the peace talks, scheduled for 27 October in neighbouring Libya.
Peacekeepers as targets: Darfur attack imperils talks (02.10.2007)
(Quelle: New York Times) The deadly attack on an African Union peacekeeping base by rebels in Darfur over the weekend brought the credibility of the rebel forces to a low point. It also demonstrated the extent to which the force, struggling with minimal manpower and matériel to keep a nonexistent peace, has come to be seen by many non-Arabs in Darfur as at best ineffective and irrelevant, and at worst, a tool manipulated by the Sudanese government, in the view of some rebel groups.
Nordic peacekeepers ready but still await Darfur call (02.10.2007)
(Quelle: ISN Security Watch) Norwegian and Swedish army engineers could be in Sudan's Darfur region as early as November as part of the U.N.-AU Darfur peacekeeping mission, their commander says, but so far their offer has yet to be accepted. If the African Union approves the 400 Nordic troops, they will be the largest and best-equipped contingent from the developed world in the 26,000-strong hybrid AU and United Nations force, the bulk of which will be African infantry. Norway's Lieutenant-Colonel Anstein Aasen said the contingent's main role would be building bases for the rest of the force along with heavy engineering projects such as roads.
Darfur rebels kill 10 in peace force (01.10.2007)
(Quelle: New York Times) Hundreds of Darfurian rebels overran an African Union peacekeeping base in the central Darfur region of Sudan in a surprise raid over the weekend, killing at least 10 soldiers, possibly kidnapping dozens more and seizing supplies that included heavy weapons, African Union officials said Sunday. The raid, which began late Saturday and appeared to be highly organized, was the deadliest and boldest attack on African Union peacekeepers since they arrived in Darfur three years ago.
Indonesia to send police team to Darfur (29.09.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Indonesia is preparing to send a small police contingent to a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, the national police spokesman said Friday. 'Preparation is underway. An advance team with seven personnel will leave as soon as their documents are completed. Another seven personnel will join them soon afterwards,' spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto told reporters. Indonesia’s foreign minister said in August that the country could contribute up to 150 police personnel, but Adiwinoto said only 14 had so far been requested to join the force.
Security Council extends mandate of panel of experts on Darfur arms embargo (28.09.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) The Security Council today decided to extend the mandate of the panel of experts set up to monitor an arms embargo in the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan. The 15-member body unanimously adopted a resolution to lengthen until 15 October 2008 the mandate of the group, which was established in March 2005 to help monitor the implementation of the arms embargo imposed by Council resolutions, and inform the sanctions committee about individuals who impede the peace process, violate international law or are responsible for offensive military overflights.
Darfur rebel leader says no truce for talks (25.09.2007)
(Quelle: Ash-Sharq al-Awsat) Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said on Tuesday he would carry on fighting during upcoming peace talks until a final settlement is reached to end the conflict in western Sudan. Ibrahim, head of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), also said he was dismissing his deputy, Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, accusing him of secret meetings with the government to undermine the movement.
Egypt to deploy 2100 peacekeeper in Darfur (25.09.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Egypt will deploy two thousand soldiers to a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, a semi-official daily newspaper reported Sunday. … He added that Egypt would also take part in the command of the force operations.