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AllAfrica.com
April 12, 2018
In Zalingei, the governor of Central Darfur, Jaafar Abdelhakam, called on the United Nations and the African Union to reassess and withdraw Unamid office from Mukjar. Yesterday speaking at a joint meeting between the state security committee and the strategic review committee of the United NationsÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 11, 2018
Mukjar camp was established in 2006, after refugees fled to the area following a surge of hostilities between the government and opposition in Chad in 2006 and 2007. UNHCR, COR and the Swedish Save the Children provided refugees of the conflict with basic services alongside the host community andÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 11, 2018
April 10, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - South Darfur Governor Tuesday urged an assessment team of the African Union and United Nations to consider the closure of a UNAMID site in Mukjar area. Governor Jaafar Abdel-Hakam expressed his demand in a speech before a joint meeting between Central DarfurÃâà...
Free Malaysia Today
April 10, 2018
On Friday, more than 500 Chadians living in the Mukjar refugee camp in Central Darfur were provided with return packages to Chad, raising the total to over 4,000. With Chadian refugees having left Mukjar, which was set up in 2006, UNHCR now plans to close the facility. “UNHCR and Commissioner ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 9, 2018
(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees): After more than 10 years of hosting Chadian refugees in Central Darfur, Mukjar refugee camp in Central Darfur is set to close, as the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Commissioner of Refugees (COR) assisted the last refugees to return to theirÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 26, 2018
Dambar — Security tensions in the southeast of Mukjar locality in Central Darfur have caused the closure of the Dambar Market since Friday. "A large group of heavily armed militiamen on motorcycles surrounded the market of Dambar on Friday morning," a resident of the town reported to Radio Dabanga.
ReliefWeb
March 12, 2018
March 11, 2018 (ZALINGEI) - Representatives of internally displaced persons (IDPs) condemned the recent beating and humiliation of civilians during an arms collection exercise in Central Darfur State and called to investigate the incident. A video clip that was widely circulated on social media this weekÃâà...
Freedom Newspaper
November 13, 2017
UNAMID Police Component would like to congratulate David Kujabi on his appointment as The Gambia Police Force Spokesperson. David was deployed to UNAMID in July 2015 and posted to Mukjar team site in Sector Central as a patrol officer. Because of his PR background, David was redeployed toÃâà...
Xinhua
September 22, 2017
The IDPs started to arrive at the camp in 2004 to flee the fighting in Shattaya, villages in the southeast of Jebel Marra, as well as Mukjar and Murni in West Darfur State and areas around Netaiga. The Sudanese authorities accuse the majority of Kalma IDPs of being loyal to the Sudan Liberation MovementÃâà...
Haaretz
June 7, 2017
Israel will grant temporary residency status to 200 people from the Darfur region of Sudan who have submitted requests to be recognized as refugees years ago but have not received a response, Haaretz has learned. The status, which is the same as that granted a refugee, will allow them to work andÃâà...
Xinhua
May 31, 2017
Around 592,000 Sudanese refugees are currently in Chad, 392,000 live in 13 refugee camps in eastern Chad, while the remaining 200,000 are in the Chadian border with some in Chadian cities. In addition, about 8,500 Chadian refugees are in Sudan's territories, living in the Um Shalaya and MukjarÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 29, 2017
In Central Darfur, a series of fights between the Fur and Misseriya tribes in Mukjar, originating in an interpersonal dispute at the local market, resulted in the deaths of three Fur between 22 and 24 December 2016. Subsequently, SAF and police personnel enhanced their presence, and a peace agreementÃâà...
IRINnews.org
August 15, 2013
“Commercial transporters are currently unwilling to transport relief supplies from El Geneina (West Darfur) and Zalingei to areas in the southern corridor localities - mainly Mukjar, Um Dukhun and Bindisi - due to security concerns,” OCHA said in its July bulletin. Sudanese analyst Eric Reeves, a professor atÃâà...
CNN
March 1, 2012
Hussein was at the time the country's interior minister "during attacks upon the towns and villages of Kodoom, Bindisi, Mukjar and Arawala in the Wadi Salih and Mukjar localities of West Darfur," the court said. The court said "there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr. Hussein is criminally responsibleÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 2, 2009
For example in Habila, Wadi Salih and Mukjar localities 97% of predominantly Fur villages were attacked and either destroyed or abandoned and 85% of predominantly Masalit villages were attacked and either destroyed or abandoned, while fewer than 1% of predominantly so-called "Arab" villages wereÃâà...
BBC News
July 21, 2004
When we tried to escape they shot more children. They raped women; I saw many cases of Janjaweed raping women and girls. They are happy when they rape. They sing when they rape and they tell that we are just slaves and that they can do with us how they wish. A, a 37-year-old from MukjarÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Yesterday more than 4,000 Chadian refugees from Mukjar and Um Shalaya camps in Central Darfur bean return operations after conditions have become favourable for return to Chad. Sudan's President Omar Al Bashir last year instructed the acceleration of work on the voluntary repatriation of SudaneseÃâà...
