UNAMID/Saeed Salim On 20 December 2018, UNAMID officially handed over the Mission’s team site in Graida, South Darfur, to the Government of Sudan as part its ongoing reconfiguration. 25 February 2019 Peace and Security Sudan’s President Omar Bashir may have declared a country-wide “cessation of hostilities” but in the face of continuing nationwide protests against his rule, the peace process in Darfur has “once again” come to a standstill, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Monday. Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Bintou Keita, was briefing members on the operation of the UN-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur ( UNAMID ), conceding that it has “yet to be assessed” how recent political developments in Khartoum will impact peace in the troubled Darfur region. Against the backdrop of more than ten weeks of protests across Sudan against fuel and cash shortages, which threaten to bring an end to his
A social media blog for news and views