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Sudan Tribune
April 22, 2018
Last week, according to a Radio Dabanga report, "hundreds of Darfuris were reportedly transported from El Geneina airport in West Darfur to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in two large aircraft, for military training. They will then be deployed by Sudan in the war in Yemen." Sources in El Geneina told RadioÃâà...
Al-Fanar Media
April 21, 2018
On January 8, in an episode related to this year's price rises, hundreds of secondary-school students in El Geneina in the state of West Darfur participated in a peaceful march to protest the increased price of bread. The students were mostly 15 and 16 years old. Live ammunition was fired at the crowd; oneÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 21, 2018
April 20, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - The government of West Darfur State on Friday has demanded support for voluntary return projects of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees. The semi-official Sudan Media Center (SMC) quoted the West Darfur governor Fadl Al-Mula al-Haga as saying theÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 20, 2018
Large-scale settlement operations have begun with the government's knowledge of new residents at the villages and farms of the displaced and refugees in areas east of El Geneina until Camp Sese on the road leading to Murnei, according to reports reaching this station from West Darfur. Witnesses toldÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 16, 2018
UNAMID Rule of Law recently organized training workshops for rural court judges in four Darfur states-- El Fasher, North Darfur; El Daein, East Darfur; Zalingei, Central Darfur; and El Geneina, West Darfur. Some 120 judges received training on Sudanese laws, legal procedures and techniques forÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 26, 2018
El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, has suffered of a severe drinking water crisis for more than a week. Residents of El Geneina told Radio Dabanga that the crisis was caused by a malfunction in the El Geneina water station. They pointed to the rise of the prices of water and called on the authorities toÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 26, 2018
Khartoum — The Minister of Trade Hatim Al-Sir Ali has stressed the need to simplify procedures in the transit trade with the countries that use the Sudanese ports across the western borders with the State of West Darfur as well as the facilitation of the work at the border crossings. The minister said that hisÃâà...
UN News
March 9, 2018
“In El Genaina (capital of West Darfur state), I heard from women who are unable to return to their pre-war homes due to security concerns and fear of being raped. In addition, some women told me about sexual violence committed in the context of intercommunal conflicts over land and natural resources,”Ãâà...
Reliefweb
March 7, 2018
On 28 February 2018, thousands of people from Kereinek, a locality in West Darfur, gathered to celebrate the declaration of all registered areas in the locality as free of Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and unexploded ordnance (UXO). The project in Kereinek, initiated jointly by UNAMID's OrdnanceÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 6, 2018
Khartoum — The Vice-President of the Republic, Hassabo Mohamed Abdul-Rahman was briefed on overall political and security situations in West Darfur State and arrangements for the Sudan-Chad Borders Conference scheduled to be held in Genaina, capital of the State in the upcoming period.
AllAfrica.com
March 1, 2018
Governor of West Darfur State, Fadl-al-Mula Al-Haga hailed sacrifices of the Armed Forces in defending the homeland , stressing that declaring Krainek Locality free of unexploded devices would boost the state efforts to achieve peace, security and stability. He said the State has said farewell to war andÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
February 27, 2018
In Darfur region, she visited the capital of North Darfur El Fasher and West Darfur capital El Geneina where she met with local officials and displaced people in Abu Shok and Al-Hujajj camps. The envoy pointed to the improvement in the security situation in Darfur but regretted that women continue to beÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
February 23, 2018
Khartoum — The Joint Special Representative for the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (Unamid), Jeremiah Mamabolo, has highlighted the positive role of the media in Darfur, and commended the Sudanese government's weapons collection programme. "I'd like to highlight that our press/media colleagues play aÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 17, 2018
The West Darfur state government's plans to dismantle two camps for displaced people in Sirba locality, and resettle them in another location, has been met with rejection by the camp coordinators. Camp coordinators of Kendebe and Bir Dagig camps said in a statement to the press that the plan toÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
February 16, 2018
Beida Locality — Seven people were shot dead and eight others were wounded in an armed cattle theft operation allegedly carried out by militiamen from Chad at Mitere administrative unit of Beida locality in West Darfur on Monday. Witnesses and sources from Beida locality told Radio Dabanga that theÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 14, 2018
On 8 February 2018, UNAMID's Bangladeshi peacekeepers teamed up with the Rule of Law section to organise a free medical clinic for the inmates and prison officers at Ardamata Prison, West Darfur. This joint civilian-military exercise served some 214 people who received basic medicalÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
February 13, 2018
February 13, 2108 (EL-GENEINA) Seven people were killed and eight injured in an armed attack by Chadian militias against Mistry village, in the locality of Baida, West Darfur State. A native leader of the Rezeigat tribe, Al-Sayer Issa Balla, told Sudan Tribune that “Chadian militias from Zaghawa tribe onÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
February 6, 2018
In a report released in October 2017, the UNOCHA said some 13,000 people have returned state from eastern Chad to West Darfur state. During his visit on Monday, al-Tahir inspected the conditions of the returnees in the villages of Tulus, Hamida and Dilaiso in the locality of Habeela. He pointed out thatÃâà...
ReliefWeb
November 21, 2017
On 14 November 2017, UNAMID, in partnership with the Government of Sudan (GoS) police, trained some 32 Community Policing Volunteers (CPVs) and Sudanese police officers on community policing and gender mainstreaming in El Geneina, West Darfur. Speaking at the workshop, Lt.-ColonelÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
"Perpetrators typically prey upon victims when they are engaged in livelihood activities. In some cases, security fears have forestalled the return of civilians to their villages of origin. In one incident, a family living in West Darfur, which had previously fled to Chad as refugees, were forced back across theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Darfur — Last week hundreds of Darfuris were reportedly transported from El Geneina airport in West Darfur to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in two large aircraft, for military training. They will then be deployed by Sudan in the war in Yemen. Informed sources in El Geneina told Radio Dabanga that theÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
December 31, 1999
During the first years of the Darfur conflict, rape cases mainly occurred around the camps of displaced persons with few sexual assaults in remote areas. "In some cases, security fears have forestalled the return of civilians to their villages of origin. In one incident, a family living in West Darfur, which hadÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
December 31, 1999
... Omer al-Bashir greets Sudanese officials at Khartoum airport on Friday 9, 2015 (Photo SUNA). The joint Sudanese-Chadian border meeting is scheduled from 21 to 22 April in West Darfur State capital, El-Geniena with the participation of President Omer al-Bashir and his Chadian counterpart Idriss Deby.
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Adre, Chad — The West Darfur State's Localities of Al-Genaina and Baidha held joint talks with Chad's Department of Assoungh within framework of exerting efforts to keep up the progressing Sudan- Chad relations and to consolidate them in all fields. The Sudanese side in the talks which held in theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Governor of West Darfur State, Fadl-al-Mula Al-Haga hailed sacrifices of the Armed Forces in defending the homeland , stressing that declaring Krainek Locality free of unexploded devices would boost the state efforts to achieve peace, security and stability. He said the State has said farewell to war andÃâà...
