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Sheltering from the mid-day sun under a dust-covered tent at the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) centre in Ed Damazin, Blue Nile State, former combatant Salah Annayem Omar said his peacetime ambition was…
In a message read out on International Women's Day celebrations across Sudan on 8 March, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that violence against women was an attack on the foundation of civilization. In a message read out…
While hundreds of Southern Sudanese have been forced into the ranks of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) against their will, others are joining self-defense units in Western Equatoria State to repulse attacks launched by the…
Chatting over the phone from his London residence, hip hop singer Emmanuel Jal said he originally wanted to be an engineer, someone who worked with machinery. Internationally acclaimed singer Emmanuel Jal tells his story…
As they lined up to deposit their old, battered guns into a large metal container at the UNMIS disarmament and demobilization site in the city of Kadugli, several ex-combatants spoke of plans to invest their forthcoming…
27 July 2009 - The issue of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan will be discussed at a major meeting in Kabul. At its 17th meeting tomorrow the tripartite commission will discuss the renewal of the key agreement between…
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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today observed the 30th Anniversary of ITALAIR's operations as part of UNIFIL in the south of Lebanon. At a ceremony held on the occasion at UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura…
Manatuto, 25 July 2009 – Today the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Timor-Leste (SRSG) Atul Khare and Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão presided over the ceremony marking the…
KABUL - The groundbreaking ceremony for a new library in Kabul took place today – the result of a dedication to Afghanistan’s history by one woman. Since arriving in Afghanistan in the 1960s Nancy Hatch Dupree, 81, has…
23 July 2009 - Some 120 European observers are joining thousands of Afghan observers for the forthcoming presidential and provincial council elections in Afghanistan on 20 August. The aim is to accomplish “the most difficult…