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Dili, 12 August 2010 - The official launch of the International Year of Youth took place in Dili, Timor-Leste, today when Secretary of State for Youth and Sports Miguel Manetelo opened a seminar in Dili, the capital, on the…
11 August 2010 – A camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Darfur that has been the scene of recent tensions remains on edge and insecure, with reports of gunfire overnight, the United Nations said today. The…
11 August 2010 - A UNAMID team which visited Kalma IDP camp yesterday has reported that large regions of the settlement appeared deserted, the inhabitants having left for either the nearby UNAMID Community Policing Center…
Over 150 ex-combatants have been demobilized in Aweil, Northern Bahr El-Ghazal State, following the launch of the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme there by the Southern Sudan DDR Commission in…
UNAMID INFO NOTE 11/08/2010 INFORMATION NOTE Statement from JSR Gambari to the people of Darfur on the Occasion of Ramadan El Fasher, 11 August 2010 – On the occasion of the Holy Month of Ramadan, I would like to take the…
11 August 2010 - The Government of Afghanistan, with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), today sent aid for the flood-affected victims of…
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KABUL - A rise in insurgent attacks has led to a 31 per cent increase in the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan in the first six months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009, the United Nations said in a new…
10 August 2010 - Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, and Georgette Gagnon, Director of UNAMA’s Human Rights Unit, released today the 2010 Mid-Year Report on Protection of…
Bunia, 10 August 2010 - Peacekeepers from the Guatemalan Special Forces (GUASFOR) of MONUSCO are financing with United Nations agencies support, the construction of a wall fence around Ndromo primary school in the town of…
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KABUL - The human cost of the armed conflict in Afghanistan is escalating in 2010. In the first six months of the year, civilian casualties – including deaths and injuries of civilians – increased by 31 per cent over the same…
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KABUL - Tactics of the Taliban and other Anti-Government Elements (AGEs) are behind a 31 per cent increase in conflict-related Afghan civilian casualties in the first six months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009…
9 August 2010 - All United Nations staff in Afghanistan are “shocked and appalled” at the killing of ten medical workers in the northeast of the Asian nation, a senior world body official said today, calling for the…