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March 10 - 2021 KHARTOUM UN Special Representative Volker Perthes (Picture: UN) The head of the new UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, told the UN Security Council (UNSC) in a virtual briefing yesterday that that while Sudan is making significant advances in its transition “the remaining challenges are staggering”. He urges the international community to step up...

Inclusive political process key to Sudan’s transition March 10, 2021 Special Representative Perthes and Prime Minister Hamdok during their first meeting on Feb. 14. — courtesy UNITAMS GENEVA — The political transition in Sudan is moving forward, though formation of the legislative council and other important milestones have yet to be achieved, the head of the new UN mission in the country told a virtual meeting of the Security Council on Tue...

March 9 - 2021 SUDAN Rally of the No To Oppression Against Women Initiative celebrating the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, December 16, 2019 (RD) International Womens Day was celebrated throughout Sudan yesterday. Various events took place and prominent women held speeches. The Darfur Bar Association (DBA), for example, called on the government to pay attention to displaced women and refugees. Nafeesa Hajar, head of the DBA, demanded the implementation of ...

The political transition in Sudan is moving forward, though formation of the legislative council and other important milestones have yet to be achieved,...

March 7 - 2021 DABANGA SUDAN Women attend a workshop on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security (Sojoud Elgarrai/UNAMID) Since Sudan reached the public eye over years of civil war in Darfur, Kordofan, and the Blue Nile, under which war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide were committed, Sudanese women have been cast as the victims of physical and sexual violence in the media. While Sudanese women continue to be disproportionately affecte...

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the Sudan and the activities of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (S/2021/199) [EN/AR] Format I. Introduction 1 . The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 2524 (2020), in which the Council decided to establish the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) and requested that the Secretary-General report to the Council every 90 days on the ...

February 13 - 2021 KHARTOUM Students of Ed Daein University (File photo) Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) Aisha Musa El Saeed has hailed women and girls for the increasing role they play in developing science and shaping the scientific future in the world. The TSC member, addressing the Sudan University of Science and Technology for the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Thursday, organized by the UNESCO Chair for Wo...

February 8 - 2021 KHARTOUM / KASSALA / EL GEDAREF Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Special Representative of the European Union (EU). Pekka Haavisto, meets Sudan PM Abdallah Hamdok in Khatoum yesterday (Social media) Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Special Representative of the European Union (EU). Pekka Haavisto, who arrived in Sudan on Saturday for a two-day official visit, today visited camps harbouring refugees from the Tigray conflict in neighbouring ...

January 28 - 2021 KHARTOUM Outgoing British Ambassador to Sudan, Irfan Siddiq (c), was received by Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok (r) in Khartoum yesterday (Photo: SUNA) The outgoing British Ambassador to Sudan, Irfan Siddiq, has described his tenure in Khartoum, especially the period in 2019 from the fall of the Al Bashir regime to the signing of the Constitutional Document, as “one of the most intense and rewarding periods of my professional life”, and pr...

English News and Press Release on Sudan about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Protection and Human Rights, Epidemic, Flood and more; published on 08 Dec 2020 by UN DPPA