Details The United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission to Sudan (UNITAMS) is scaling up its operations following the appointment, on 7 January, of Volker Perthes as Special Representative for Sudan of the UN Secretary General and head of UNITAMS. He leads a mission tasked with providing support to the Sudanese government at a time of extraordinary challenge for the country. A political transition which began in 2019 with the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir is proceeding haltingly as Sudan faces a deep economic crisis, violence in the peripheral regions of Darfur and the East, and recurrent tensions between leading figures of the transition.