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Moses Loboyong is no run-of-the-mill first-time voter in Sudan's first national multi-party elections in 24 years. He is a deaf-mute resident of the Central Equatoria State county of Kajo Keji, and when the time came to cast…
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KABUL - There are a few types of workers who on the one hand, save people's lives, but on the other sometimes put their own lives in danger as well. Deminers are among them. On the early morning of 11 April, a group of…
15 April 2010 - On Monday, four civilians were reportedly killed and 18 others injured in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, when international military forces fired at a bus. The Special Representative of the United…
15 April 2010 - The Balkhi hall, in the centre of Herat is adorned for the occasion: Huge blocks of raw marble have been set outside the venue. Inside, statues, tiles, mantelpieces and fountains in the shape of birds, which…
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KABUL - The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today voiced his concern over a “disturbing trend” of civilian casualties caused by recent international military operations in the country, urging greater efforts to…
14 April 2010 - On 11 April, a bus carrying a group of deminers on their way to go to work in Kandahar province’s Daman district was struck by a roadside bomb. Five of the deminers were killed, and 16 injured, according to…
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UNAMID PR / 15-2010 PRESS RELEASE UNAMID peacekeepers remain unaccounted for; carjacking, abduction likely El Fasher, 14 April 2010 – Four UNAMID peacekeepers from South Africa have not been seen or heard from in more than 72…
The plague of inter-communal violence that affected much of Southern Sudan last year took its toll on the residents of the Upper Nile State town of Bienythiang. Tribal clashes erupted in the predominantly Dinka community of 2…
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13 April 2010 - The head of the League of Arab States’ Elections Observation Mission, Ambassador Salah Halima, today paid a visit to UNAMID headquarters in El Fasher, North Darfur, where he met with the Mission’s Joint…
On 13 April 2010, the fifteenth meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM), chaired by the United Nations, was held in Gali. Participants exchanged updated information and clarification on various issues…
Taking an afternoon break on the third, rather slow polling day in Dim, a poorer area of Khartoum, volunteer polling staffer Mai El Said was sitting under a tree with a friend. "I wanted to do this for the country," she said…
13 April 2010 - A centre coordinating the detection and removal of landmines in Afghanistan on Monday condemned an attack on deminers in the country. UN Radio report The attack, which happened on a team working for the…