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21 Jan 2021 - Press Statement: For Immediate Release(New York, 21 January 2021)
I am greatly concerned by serious allegations of sexual violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, including a high number of alleged rapes in the capital, Mekelle. There are also disturbing reports of...
17 Jan 2021 - The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about clashes in West Darfur over the weekend. Escalating inter-communal violence has resulted in scores of deaths and injuries, the displacement of nearly 50,000 people and the destruction of property. He expresses his deepest...
07 Jan 2021 - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Volker Perthes of Germany as his new Special Representative for Sudan and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS).
Mr. Volker Perthes brings to...
08 Dec 2020 - Ambassadors were updated on developments since the signing in October of a milestone peace agreement between the authorities and two armed movements from Darfur, and on the potential drawdown of the UN-African Union force in the province, known as ...
22 Oct 2020 - Jean-Pierre Lacroix briefed ambassadors on recent developments concerning the oil-rich border area, where the UN interim security force, UNISFA, has been deployed since 2011 to protect civilians and humanitarians.
He recalled the...
08 Oct 2020 - Sudan has been hit by devastating floods, the worst seen in decades, impacting more than 600,000 households across 17 of the country’s 18 states.
With homes destroyed and farmland damaged just ahead of the harvest season, it’s been another shock amid multiple crises. ...
A flood-affected village in Khartoum State, Sudan. UNOCHA
02 Oct 2020 - Authorities declared a three-month state of emergency in early September after the worst flooding in 30 years.
To date, more than 860,000 people have had houses destroyed or damaged and more than 120 people have died.
Some 560 schools and thousands of health facilities have...
Prime Minister Abdalla Adam Hamdok (on screen) of the Republic of the Sudan addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session. UN Photo/Manuel Elias
26 Sep 2020 - The African country is continuing on a path of political transition following the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019.
“Sudan, with the blood of its martyrs, has gone through decades of tyranny, injustice and social deterioration,” he said.
“Despite all of this,...
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