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After five quiet days of polling, voters were still trickling in during the last hour of Sudan's historic elections at one of Omdurman's polling centres on 15 April. Checking for her name on the long list of registered voters…
Reports of missing voter names from registers in polling stations have been widespread during the last few days of Sudanese elections. Taban Anthony Kenyi, who works for UNMIS in Juba, was among voters who failed to find…
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15 April 2010 - United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, today called on the competent Afghan authorities to ensure a quick and thorough investigation into…
Moses Loboyong is no run-of-the-mill first-time voter in Sudan's first national multi-party elections in 24 years. He is a deaf-mute resident of the Central Equatoria State county of Kajo Keji, and when the time came to cast…
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KABUL - There are a few types of workers who on the one hand, save people's lives, but on the other sometimes put their own lives in danger as well. Deminers are among them. On the early morning of 11 April, a group of…
15 April 2010 - On Monday, four civilians were reportedly killed and 18 others injured in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, when international military forces fired at a bus. The Special Representative of the United…
15 April 2010 - The Balkhi hall, in the centre of Herat is adorned for the occasion: Huge blocks of raw marble have been set outside the venue. Inside, statues, tiles, mantelpieces and fountains in the shape of birds, which…
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KABUL - The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today voiced his concern over a “disturbing trend” of civilian casualties caused by recent international military operations in the country, urging greater efforts to…
14 April 2010 - On 11 April, a bus carrying a group of deminers on their way to go to work in Kandahar province’s Daman district was struck by a roadside bomb. Five of the deminers were killed, and 16 injured, according to…
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UNAMID PR / 15-2010 PRESS RELEASE UNAMID peacekeepers remain unaccounted for; carjacking, abduction likely El Fasher, 14 April 2010 – Four UNAMID peacekeepers from South Africa have not been seen or heard from in more than 72…
The plague of inter-communal violence that affected much of Southern Sudan last year took its toll on the residents of the Upper Nile State town of Bienythiang. Tribal clashes erupted in the predominantly Dinka community of 2…