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30 May 20012. Forog: A man from Forog, in Insuro area (North Darfur), welcomes the arrival of a UNAMID delegation with a handwriting banner. The area, currently controlled by the rebel movement Sudan Liberation Army (Abdul Wahid faction), is reported by the local population to suffer a serious shortage of water and medicines.
The UNAMID deputy Joint Special Representative, Aichatou Mindaoudou, has visited the community today to officially open a clinic and three schools in Forog, Endero, Misteria and Deleba that have been sponsored by UNAMID.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran
11 November 2010. El Fasher: Supervisor Radia Ibrahim Hamid and the translator to the sign language, Abdelatif Adam Ibrahim, are teaching mathematics to the students at the North Darfur Association for the Disabled, in El Fasher. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID / www.albertgonzalez.net
14 November 2012. El Geneina: (right) Massud Bessair, a farmer from Kreink, West Darfur, accompany her husband (in bed) Yaratnebi Yagub (60 years old), who is being assisted at the Teaching Hospital in El Geneina, after getting infected with Yellow Fever.
Yesterday, the hospital received a small number of vaccines that have already been used to inoculate hospital staff. The facility is expecting to receive thousands more vaccines that will be used to assist
the local population. West Darfur is currently one of the states with the highest rates of yellow fever cases.
The hospital has already treated 106 cases of Yellow Fever since the disease began to spread one month ago. Among these cases, 38 people have died, most of them farmers from El Geneina, Mornei, Habila, Kreink, Beida and Forobaranga. The Ministry of Health in West Darfur is working closely with the African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), UN agencies and international and national nongovernmental organisations to fumigate, distribute vaccines and implement awareness campaigns. The epidemic has no precedent in the region.
Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.
03 October 2012. El Geneina: (right) UNAMID Force Commander, Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba (Rwanda) visits a peacekeeper from Nigeria who recovers at the UNAMID hospital in El Geneina from the injures that they suffered in an ambush yesterday night.
Four peacekeepers were killed and eight injured in this ambush by unidentified assailants.
The incident, which involved a Nigerian military patrol, occurred approximately two kilometers from the Mission's regional headquarters.
UNAMID personnel, who were heavily fired upon from several directions, returned fire.
Photo By - Albert González Farran - UNAMID
2 November 2011. El Fasher: Sheij Aldine is a member of the center of the Sudanese Association for Disabled People in El Fasher. He works at the workshop, making crutches, wheelchairs and special shoes for disabled persons. He is also disabled and he is given a motorbike by the organization to facilitate his mobility.
The organization takes care of all disabled people in Darfur.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net
19 August 2012. El Fasher: Sudanese muslims from El Fasher, North Darfur, attend the morning prayer at the outskirts of the city to celebrate the Eid ul-Fitr, the feast marking the end of the fast of Ramadan.
One of the main bridges that gives access to El Fasher broke down yesterday due to the heavy rain and many people living in the West part of the city couldn't attend the religious celebration at the main mosque.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
6 December 2012. Zam Zam: A woman and her daughter in Zam Zam camp for Internally displaced persons (IDP), North Darfur, dance the music performed by professional singers at the event organized by UNAMID Human Rights to promote the new campaign "Together to Protect Women from Violence", as part of the Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Zero Tolerance.
This is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991. Participants chose the dates, November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and
human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
22 November 2012. A 15 years old girl is pictured with her baby in a house in Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons, North Darfur.Hawa was raped one year ago by an unknown man when she was going back home after work in El Fasher town. After the incident, she got pregnant and emotionally disturbed. Her father hided her at home during the pregnancy and right after the delivery he fled to Khartoum, abandoning her completely. Now, she lives with other relatives. Photo by Albert Gonzￃﾡlez Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net
12 August 2012. Kutum: A Sudanese military post located next to a burnt vehicle protects the Agriculture Bank of Darfur in Kutum, North Darfur, after the incidents occurred in the city.
The series of incidents began on 1 August when the Commissioner of the district of Alwaha, in Kutum town, and his driver were shot dead and his vehicle was carjacked by three unknown armed men. Later in the day, the official’s vehicle was recovered by Government of Sudan security agents 2 kilometres from the Kassab internally displaced persons (IDP) camp.
Subsequently, on the same day armed men surrounded Kassab, looted the market, burnt down the Sudanese Police post in the camp and reportedly killed four persons (three civilians and one police officer) and injured six others.
Similar events leading to the deterioration in the security and humanitarian situation occurred the following days in and around Kutum town, Kassab and Fataborno IDP camps, including fighting between the armed elements and Government Forces, as well as looting and displacement of civilians.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
9 August 2011. Kutum: UNAMID South African troops celebrate their national Women's Day in Kutum (North Darfur). Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net
15 August 2012. El Fasher: Young women collect bricks for the construction of a community center in Althoura Shemal in El Fasher, North Darfur, as part of a Community Based-Labour Intensive Project (CLIP) sponsored by UNAMID DDR (Disarmament Demobilization Reintegration).
During three months, UNAMID provides training to 80 young people (60 men and 20 women) to construct this building.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
La muralla romana
A finals del segle II aC o inici de la següent centúria, els romans aixequen una muralla en la part menys protegida de la plataforma rocosa olerdolana. D'un extrem a l'altre del penya-segat, la muralla té una llargada de 145 m i una amplada de 2 m. L'altura original màxima conservada és de 4 m.
La construcció de la muralla romana d'Olèrdola respon tant a les necessitats d'establir un punt de control territorial com a l'interès propagandístic i propagador de la civilització romana enfront dels ibers indígenes.
La muralla presenta quatre trams de llenços separats per quatre torres i amb una porta central. L'obra constructiva consta d'una cara exterior de carreus, una cara interior d'encofrat i el recle intern de pedres irregulars i morter.
Els carreus de calcària estan ben desbastats, tot i que la disposició dels blocs i de les filades és força heterogènia, més propera al tipus d'aparell poligonal que al quadrangular. Alguns dels carreus estan encoixinats i altres presenten uns pius cilíndrics usats durant la construcció de la muralla per elevar els blocs fins al seu emplaçament definitiu. L'heterogeneïtat de la construcció ha estat atribuïda al treball simultani de diferents grups d'obrers, cada un concentrat en un tram o torre.
El tram de llevant està sobreelevat gràcies a la roca tallada verticalment en la seva base que també va servir de pedrera en el moment de l'aixecament del vallum. En alguns punts, l'altura del front de pedrera és de prop de 2 m. De llevant a ponent, el primer tram de muralla inclou dos tipus d'aparell ben diferenciat; a l'extrem de llevant, pedra petita sense escairar unida amb morter de calç i, a la resta, blocs escairats, alguns d'ells disposats en filades de dret i en filades de través, alternant amb altres disposicions.
La torre de llevant presenta la planta rectangular i l'obra exterior és de carreus poligonals, alguns d'ells encoixinats. Encara que molt enrunada en una de les seves cares, conserva una altura considerable. En un dels blocs de la cara nord es troba un grafit cisellat a la pedra. Matiés Pallarés va excavar l'interior de la torre entre els anys 1920 i 1921.
Al segon tram s'observen dos tipus diferents d'obra. La part inferior presenta un aparell poligonal força regular, amb alguns blocs encoixinats. La part superior és una obra de pedres mitjanes irregulars unides amb morter de calç. La cara interna d'encofrat és homogènia en aquest mateix tram. La torre avui visible que flanqueja la porta per la banda esquerra conserva l'estructura interna original romana, però deguè ser refeta en època medieval i en part reconstruïda a inicis del segle XX.
Una única porta s'obre a la part central de la muralla, dividint-la en dos trams, el de llevant i el de ponent. L'entrada està flanquejada per torres de planta quadrada i encara avui és pas obligat per entrar al recinte. L'amplada se situaria entorn els 3.5 m.
El tram de ponent presenta més alteracions que el contraposat, en servir de mur posterior a la masia-rectoria enderrocada els anys 60. La torre de flanqueig situada a la dreta de la porta presenta la base de grans carreus molt erosionats, la part mitjana de blocs més petits i la superior d'obra irregular coronada amb merlets, afegitó de principis del segle XX.
El tercer llenç fou parcialment reaixecat en construïr-se els nous edificis (1970-71). L'aparell poligonal és trencat per dues finestretes, una conservada de l'antiga masia i l'altra oberta en l'obra nova.
La planta de la torre més septentrional presenta una curiosa i infreqüent forma d'esperó. L'aparell és regular i de grans blocs en l'angle frontal i el basament, essent la resta d'obra, és petit. En aquest punt es pot observar l'alternança de files de blocs del dret i files al través, sistema utilitzat també a la muralla serviana a Roma i en altres indrets durant el període republicà i augusteu. En la part refeta s'hi obren dues finestretes modernes.
El darrer llenç presenta un aparell poligonal amb blocs grans i mitjans. La part refeta és d'obra de mida més petita. Una nova finestra reemplaça una antiga porta de la masia.
El distint parament que s'observa en el folre exterior de la muralla (carreus i pedra sense desbastar a la part superior) contrasta amb la uniformitat de l'encofrat intern. Aquest fet ha donat peu a diferents interpretacions, des de la consideració que l'opus poligonal seria romà mentre la resta correspondria a una restauració medieval, fins a la finalització precipitada de l'obra per part dels mateixos romans.
La muralla romana
A finales del siglo II aC o inicio de la siguiente centuria, los romanos levantan una muralla en la parte menos protegida de la plataforma rocosa olerdolana. De un extremo al otro del acantilado, la muralla tiene una longitud de 145 m y una anchura de 2 m. La altura original máxima conservada es de 4 m.
La construcción de la muralla romana de Olèrdola responde tanto a las necesidades de establecer un punto de control territorial como al interés propagandístico y propagador de la civilización romana frente a los íberos indígenas.
La muralla presenta cuatro tramos de lienzos separados por cuatro torres y con una puerta central. La obra constructiva consta de una cara exterior de sillares, una cara interior de encofrado y el recebo interno de piedras irregulares y mortero.
Los sillares de caliza están bien desbastados, aunque la disposición de los bloques y de las hiladas es bastante heterogénea, más cercana al tipo de aparejo poligonal que el cuadrangular. Algunos de los sillares estan acolchados y otros presentan unos pivotes cilíndricos usados durante la construcción de la muralla para elevar los bloques hasta su emplazamiento definitivo. La heterogeneidad de la construcción ha sido atribuida al trabajo simultáneo de diferentes grupos de obreros, cada uno concentrado en un tramo o torre.
El tramo de levante está sobreelevado gracias a la roca cortada verticalmente en su base que también sirvió de cantera en el momento del levantamiento del vallum. En algunos puntos, la altura del frente de cantera es de cerca de 2 m. De levante a poniente, el primer tramo de muralla incluye dos tipos de aparejo bien diferenciado; en el extremo de levante, piedra pequeña sin escuadrar unida con mortero de cal y, el resto, bloques escuadrados, algunos de ellos dispuestos en hiladas de derecho y en hiladas de través, alternando con otras disposiciones.
La torre de levante presenta la planta rectangular y la obra exterior es de sillares poligonales, algunos de ellos almohadillados. Aunque muy en ruinas en una de sus caras, conserva una altura considerable. En uno de los bloques de la cara norte se encuentra un grafito cisncelado en la piedra. Matías Pallarés excavó el interior de la torre entre los años 1920 y 1921.
En el segundo tramo se observan dos tipos diferentes de obra. La parte inferior presenta un aparejo poligonal bastante regular, con algunos bloques almohadillados. La parte superior es una obra de piedras medianas irregulares unidas con mortero de cal. La cara interna de encofrado es homogénea en este mismo tramo. La torre hoy visible que flanquea la puerta por el lado izquierdo conserva la estructura interna original romana, pero debió ser reconstruida en época medieval y en parte reconstruida a principios del siglo XX.
Una única puerta se abre en la parte central de la muralla , dividiéndola en dos tramos, el de levante y el poniente. La entrada está flanqueada por torres de planta cuadrada y aún hoy es paso obligado para entrar en el recinto. La anchura se situaría en torno los 3.5 m.
El tramo de poniente presenta más alteraciones que el contrapuesto, al servir de muro posterior a la masía-rectoría derribada en los años 60. La torre de flanqueo situada a la derecha de la puerta presenta una base de grandes sillares muy erosionados, la parte media de bloques más pequeños y la superior de obra irregular coronada con almenas, añadido de principios del siglo XX.
El tercer lienzo fue parcialmente rehecho al construir los nuevos edificios (1970-71). El aparejo poligonal está cortado por dos ventanitas, una conservada de la antigua masía y la otra abierta en la obra nueva.
La planta de la torre más septentrional presenta una curiosa e infrecuente forma de espolón. El aparejo es regular y de grandes bloques en el ángulo frontal y el basamento, siendo el resto de obra, más pequeño. En este punto se puede observar la alternancia de filas de bloques del derecho y filas al través, sistema utilizado también en la muralla serviana en Roma y en otros lugares durante el periodo republicano y augústeo . En la parte reconstruida se abren dos ventanitas modernas.
El último lienzo presenta un aparejo poligonal con bloques grandes y medianos. La parte reconstruida es de obra de menor tamaño. Una nueva ventana reemplaza una antigua puerta de la masía.
El distinto paramento que se observa en el forro exterior de la muralla (sillares y piedra sin desbastar en la parte superior) contrasta con la uniformidad del encofrado interno. Este hecho ha dado pie a diferentes interpretaciones, desde la consideración de que el opus poligonal sería romano mientras el resto correspondería a una restauración medieval, hasta la finalización precipitada de la obra por parte de los mismos romanos.
03 October 2012. El Geneina: (left) UNAMID Force Commander, Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba (Rwanda) visits a peacekeeper from Nigeria who recovers at the UNAMID hospital in El Geneina from the injures that they suffered in an ambush yesterday night.
Four peacekeepers were killed and eight injured in this ambush by unidentified assailants.
The incident, which involved a Nigerian military patrol, occurred approximately two kilometers from the Mission's regional headquarters.
UNAMID personnel, who were heavily fired upon from several directions, returned fire.
Photo By - Albert González Farran - UNAMID
18 July 2011. El Fasher: UNAMID South African peacekeepers sing songs with students of the Alfaki Abdallah Albigawi Basic Level School for girls in El Fasher (North Darfur) as part of the programme to commemrate Nelson Mandela's Day. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID
30 March 2011. Buru (West Darfur): UNAMID Peacekeepers from Thailand on patrol in Buru market (more than 50 km to the south of the team site in Muhkjar) controlled by the Government forces. This is the first time that many villagers see blue helmets in Buru due to difficulties of access. Local leaders complain due to the lack of water, education and health system (the nearest clinic is 30 km away). Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID
28 August 2012. Kutum: Community leader Halima Harun Ismail inspects the destruction of the clinic run by the NGO Goal in Kassab camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) that was looted by armed militias.
Several weeks ago, all the IDPs left the camp due to the attacks of armed militias who also destroyed the clinic. This clinic is still out of service because all the equipment was looted by the attackers.
The IDPs started to come back to the camp recently and the authorities opened a provisional clinic, located in an old shelter, that assists between 300 and 400 people everyday with not enough personnel (only 3 medical assistants) and medicines.
The series of incidents began on 1 August when the Commissioner of the district of Alwaha, in Kutum town, and his driver were shot dead and his vehicle was carjacked by three unknown armed men. Later in the day, the official’s vehicle was recovered by Government of Sudan security agents 2 kilometres from the Kassab internally displaced persons (IDP) camp.
Subsequently, on the same day armed men surrounded Kassab, looted the market, burnt down the Sudanese Police post in the camp and reportedly killed four persons (three civilians and one police officer) and injured six others.
Similar events leading to the deterioration in the security and humanitarian situation occurred the following days in and around Kutum town, Kassab and Fataborno IDP camps, including fighting between the armed elements and Government Forces, as well as looting and displacement of civilians.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
11 November 2010. El Fasher: Supervisor Radia Ibrahim Hamid and the translator to the sign language, Abdelatif Adam Ibrahim, are teaching mathematics to the students at the North Darfur Association for the Disabled, in El Fasher. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID / www.albertgonzalez.net
8 December 2012. El Fasher: Abdalla Mohamed Ahmed, director of Preventive Medicine of North Darfur, pictured at the new hospital under construction at the South part of El Fasher, North Darfur.
The population of El Fasher has increased enormously for the last years due to the arrival of Internally Displaced Persons at the outskirts of the city and it became a problem of capacity for the hospital.
Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.
14 July 2011. Sehjanna: Returned families arrive to their original village and greet their relatives. More than 200 displaced families (about 800 people) are returning from Aramba to their original village, Sehjanna (100 kilometers distance).After more than seven years in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Aramba (near Kabkabiya, North Darfur) they decided to participate at this voluntary repatriation program organized by UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission, with the logistical support of UNAMID. The families are farmers who fled their original village in Sehjanna (near Kutum, North Darfur) due to the conflict in Darfur.
The return operation started on Sunday 10 July and will continue for the next days. The returnees are transported by buses and their belongings by trucks for about 10 hours. During the trip, the Rwandan and South African UNAMID troops are escorting the returnees, who are also provided with water jerry cans. World Food Program will provide the returnees with food for the first six months.
This is the largest returnee operation organized in North Darfur for the last years.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net
1 June 2011, Nyala: Former members of the Popular Defense Force (PDF), as more than 1,000 ex- combatants (army and rebel members) of the Darfur conflict participate in a reintegration program held at the National Service Camp in Nyala (South Darfur). The initiative is organized by the North Sudan DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration) Commission with the support of UNAMID.
The opening ceremony was on 22 May and the activities will continue until 5 June, 2011.
The program provides former combatants (already disarmed) with financial assistance (in the amount of 800 Sudanese pounds), technical support, medical examinations (HIV tests included) and advisory services to restart their life as civilians.
The Popular Defense Force (PDF), formed in 1989 as a dedicated Islamist militia, was the main instrument for mobilization in Darfur, sending tens of thousands of Darfurians to fight against southern rebels. In most parts of Sudan today, the PDF is an inactive reserve force to the regular army.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID
30 March 2011. Muhkjar (West Darfur): UNAMID peacekeepers from Thailand and based in Muhkjar (West Darfur) distribute C-Vitamine pills to sick children in Buru (more than 50 km to the south of Muhkjar). Most of the children have serious diseases and infections due to the lack of health care in the village (the nearest clinic is 30 km away). This is the first time that many villagers see blue helmets in Buru due to difficulties of access. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID
6 December 2012. Zam Zam: Girls residents of the Zam Zam camp for Internally displaced persons (IDP), North Darfur, put on the T-shirts donated by UNAMID Human Rights section to promote the new campaign "Together to Protect Women from Violence", as part of the Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Zero Tolerance.
This is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991. Participants chose the dates, November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and
human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
18 August 2010. EL Fasher: Women in El Fasher but originally from Kutum pray together during Ramadan. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / Unamid
24 October 2012. El Fasher: Members of the Falata tribe perform a traditional dance in Al Zubir stadium in El Fasher, North Darfur, as part of the commemoration program of the United Nations Day.
UNAMID, UN agencies and the people of Darfur gathered in El Fasher, North Darfur, to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the UN with a special parade, cultural dances, peace songs and exhibitions to promote the principles of the organisation. Similar events were held throughout Darfur.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
5 August 2012. El Fasher: UNAMID peacekeeper Lieutenant Colonel Yuli Cahyanti, of the Indonesia's civilian police, interacts with women in a water point in Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons (North Darfur) during a morning patrol.
Indonesia has around 150 FPU policemen deployed in Darfur to provide escort and security to UNAMID, UN agencies and any other aid organization, as to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Abu Shouk and Zam Zam camps.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
26 January 2011. Abu Shouk: Women filling a Water Roller in a water point in Abu Shouk camp for internal displaced people.
A large number of the Darfurian population has a limited access to water resources and have to carry heavy buckets or jerry cans many times a day because for it is small capacity for long distance. Water Roller is a device for carrying water more easily and efficiently than traditional methods. The hippo roller, with its large drum capacity (usually 75 liters), frees women and children from having to spend a large portion of every day dedicated to collecting water for their households.
The Water Roller project started in South Africa and thousands of them have been distributed worldwide over the past 16 years, benefiting over 225,000 people. It have been used by Word Food Program (WFP), Operation Hunger, Operation Mobilization International as well as many other NGO's.
UNAMID (African Union and United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur), in contribution of the development and early recovery, is distributing 30,000 rollers to returnee villages across Darfur with limited access to water resources. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID
3 April 2012. El Fasher: Ismael Ibrahim Omar (20 years old) is pictured in his house in Al Salam camp for displaced persons.
Ismael lost his right hand due to a detonation of an unexploded ordnance (UXO).
It happened five years ago in Korma, his original village, when Ismael was farming with his cattle. He found an UXO on the ground and he started playing with it until it detonated.
Abdurrahim, who wants to become a pharmacist, is still struggling to learn how to write with his left hand.
UXOs are explosive weapons (bombs, bullets, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines, etc.) that did not explode when they were employed and still pose a risk of detonation, potentially many decades after they were used or discarded.
Tomorrow, 4th April, is the International Day of Mine Awareness. In Darfur, as a consequence of the ongoing conflict, UXOs is one of the main problems for the civilians, specially children. Hundreds of them have been mutilated.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
8 December 2012. El Fasher: A patient is receiving a blood transfusion at the intensive-care area of the El Fasher Hospital, North Darfur. The intensive-care area has only ten beds and doesn't have capacity for all cases. More than 500 patients visit the hospital everyday and they are assisted first by 4 emergency doctors during the day. At night time, only one is on duty.
The population of El Fasher has increased enormously for the last years due to the arrival of Internally Displaced Persons at the outskirts of the city and it became a problem of capacity for the hospital.
Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.
2 August 2012. El Fasher: UNAMID peacekeeper captain Daulat Nainggolan, Formed Police Unite (FPU) member from Indonesia, gives orders to a squad member during a training session in UNAMID headquarters in El Fasher (North Darfur).
Indonesia has around 150 FPU policemen deployed in Darfur to provide escort and security to UNAMID, UN agencies and any other aid organization, as to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Abu Shouk and Zam Zam camps.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
5 August 2012. El Fasher: (left to right) UNAMID peacekeepers first sergeant Andi Yuliawan and first sergeant Bahari of the Indonesia's Formed Police Unite (FPU) sit in a pick-up ready to go on morning patrol to Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons (North Darfur).
Indonesia has around 150 FPU policemen deployed in Darfur to provide escort and security to UNAMID, UN agencies and any other aid organization, as to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Abu Shouk and Zam Zam camps.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
3 February 2011.Addis Ababa (Ethiopia): UNAMID Joint Special Representative Ibrahim Gambari and African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security Lamamra Ramtane, before attending the meeting of Tripartite Mechanism in African Union Head Quarters in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID
14 November 2012. El Geneina: Saleh Mohammed Hamid (18 years old) from Gocker, West Darfur, is being assisted at the Teaching Hospital in El Geneina, after getting infected with the Yellow Fever.
Yesterday, the hospital received a small number of vaccines that have already been used to inoculate hospital staff. The facility is expecting to receive thousands more vaccines that will be used to assist
the local population. West Darfur is currently one of the states with the highest rates of yellow fever cases.
The hospital has already treated 106 cases of Yellow Fever since the disease began to spread one month ago. Among these cases, 38 people have died, most of them farmers from El Geneina, Mornei, Habila, Kreink, Beida and Forobaranga. The Ministry of Health in West Darfur is working closely with the African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), UN agencies and international and national nongovernmental organisations to fumigate, distribute vaccines and implement awareness campaigns. The epidemic has no precedent in the region. Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net
03 October 2012. El Geneina: (right) UNAMID Force Commander, Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba (Rwanda) inspects one of the UNAMID vehicles that suffered an ambush yesterday night.
Four peacekeepers were killed and eight injured in this ambush by unidentified assailants.
The incident, which involved a Nigerian military patrol, occurred approximately two kilometers from the Mission's regional headquarters.
UNAMID personnel, who were heavily fired upon from several directions, returned fire.
Photo By - Albert González Farran - UNAMID
2 December 2012. El Fasher: Opening ceremony of a community center in Althoura Shemal in El Fasher, North Darfur, as part of a Community Based-Labour Intensive Project (CLIP) sponsored by UNAMID DDR (Disarmament Demobilization Reintegration).
During the last five months, UNAMID provided training to 80 young people (60 men and 20 women) to construct this building.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
16 August 2011. Tawilla: Internally displaced persons (IDP) settled in Dali camp, next to Tawilla (North Darfur), are currently farming the lands rented by local owners for the rainy season. Most of these IDPs came recently to Tawilla fleeing from the clashes in Shangle Tubaya at the beginning of 2011. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID
25 July 2012. Gereida: UNAMID troops from Ethiopia based in Gereida (South Darfur) patrol forested areas to protect women collecting firewood against robberies, rapes and any other perpetrations.
The area is controlled by the Government of Sudan forces. In May, the rebel movement occupied Gereida for 24 hours after a big clash that destroyed the telecommunications of the city and several buildings.
UNAMID has deployed a battalion from Ethiopia (more than 800 soldiers) that assures the protection of civilians.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
Instrument de tallar constituït per dues làmines entrecreuades i unides en el punt d'entrecreuament per un piu al voltant del qual poden girar, obrint-se en forma de X, proveïdes generalment d'un mànec cadascuna.
Instrumento compuesto de dos hojas de acero, a manera de cuchillas de un solo filo, y por lo común con un ojo para meter los dedos al remate de cada mango, las cuales pueden girar alrededor de un eje que las traba, para cortar, al cerrarlas, lo que se pone entre ellas.
Instrument consisting of two sheets of steel, as a single-edged blade, and usually with an eye to put fingers to the auction of each handle, which can rotate about an axis that women workers to cut, to closing, which is placed between them.
27 August 2012. Kutum: UNAMID peacekeepers from the Nepalese special forces escort the food distribution by the World Food Program (WFP) in Kassab camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). WFP started today distributing food among the IDPs through three different distribution centers.
Several weeks ago, all the IDPs left the camp due to the attacks of militias and they started to come back recently after the attacks stopped, the UNAMID secured the area and the humanitarian organizations started operating.
The series of incidents began on 1 August when the Commissioner of the district of Alwaha, in Kutum town, and his driver were shot dead and his vehicle was carjacked by three unknown armed men. Later in the day, the official’s vehicle was recovered by Government of Sudan security agents 2 kilometres from the Kassab internally displaced persons (IDP) camp.
Subsequently, on the same day armed men surrounded Kassab, looted the market, burnt down the Sudanese Police post in the camp and reportedly killed four persons (three civilians and one police officer) and injured six others.
Similar events leading to the deterioration in the security and humanitarian situation occurred the following days in and around Kutum town, Kassab and Fataborno IDP camps, including fighting between the armed elements and Government Forces, as well as looting and displacement of civilians.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
31 October 2011. El Fasher: Nahla Mohammed Ahmed (21) with her first son, born today at 11.30am, at the El Fasher Women's Hospital (North Darfur, Sudan). Nahla is considering naming him Mohammed.
United Nations marked the world's population reaching 7 billion today 31 October. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in his message: “Some say our planet is too crowded. I say we are seven billion strong.
Sudan’s population reaches 33 million persons, with approximately 6 million living in Darfur’s three states.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID
22 March 2011. El Fasher: Nigerian Police Medal parade, led by the JSR Ibrahim Gambari in UNAMID Super Camp. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID
14 July 2011. Sehjanna: Returned families arrive to their original village and greet their relatives. More than 200 displaced families (about 800 people) are returning from Aramba to their original village, Sehjanna (100 kilometers distance).After more than seven years in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Aramba (near Kabkabiya, North Darfur) they decided to participate at this voluntary repatriation program organized by UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission, with the logistical support of UNAMID. The families are farmers who fled their original village in Sehjanna (near Kutum, North Darfur) due to the conflict in Darfur.
The return operation started on Sunday 10 July and will continue for the next days. The returnees are transported by buses and their belongings by trucks for about 10 hours. During the trip, the Rwandan and South African UNAMID troops are escorting the returnees, who are also provided with water jerry cans. World Food Program will provide the returnees with food for the first six months.
This is the largest returnee operation organized in North Darfur for the last years.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net
2 January 2012. Kuma Garadayat: Children from Kuma Garadayat (North Darfur) welcome the UNAMID Deputy Joint Special Representative (Political), Aichatou Mindaoudou Souleymane, on her arrival to the village.
Mindaoudou officially presented to the population the new UNAMID Quick Impact Project (QIT) on the construction of a new school with 14 classrooms for girls and boys, a clinic, a youth center and a women center. The execution of this project will start in one month by the Senegalese Engineering battalion based in the UNAMID team site in Korma.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID
23 January 2011. Sullu (Mournei, West Darfur): Children in the local school of Sullu, where they are thought by 3 volunteer teachers. There are about 75 students of different ages some of them from the new families who arrived recently from Kalma IDP Camp (South Darfur).
An Inter agency mission (UNICEF, OCHA, FAO, UNDP and UNAMID) visited Sullu village, in Mournei (West Darfur), where about 120 people returned from Kalma IDP camp last december. The new arrivals just settled down in the new place, most of them making new shelters with branches and plastics. The local community of Sullu hostes the new arrivals providing them some help, health assistance and education to the children in the local school. WFP will provide food for all of them for the next six months. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID
27 August 2012. Kutum: A woman receives a ration of sorghum (cereal) from the World Food Program (WFP) in Kassab camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). WFP started today distributing food among the IDPs through three different distribution centers.
Several weeks ago, all the IDPs left the camp due to the attacks of militias and they started to come back recently after the attacks stopped, the UNAMID secured the area and the humanitarian organizations started operating.
The series of incidents began on 1 August when the Commissioner of the district of Alwaha, in Kutum town, and his driver were shot dead and his vehicle was carjacked by three unknown armed men. Later in the day, the official’s vehicle was recovered by Government of Sudan security agents 2 kilometres from the Kassab internally displaced persons (IDP) camp.
Subsequently, on the same day armed men surrounded Kassab, looted the market, burnt down the Sudanese Police post in the camp and reportedly killed four persons (three civilians and one police officer) and injured six others.
Similar events leading to the deterioration in the security and humanitarian situation occurred the following days in and around Kutum town, Kassab and Fataborno IDP camps, including fighting between the armed elements and Government Forces, as well as looting and displacement of civilians.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
19 July 2012. El Fasher: Members of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) and the disabled community in Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons prepare the material for a hand-over ceremony. The UNV office delivered five wheelchairs, 102 crutches, 75 sticks for blind, tobes and T-shirts.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
19 July 2012. El Fasher: A blinf person is given a stick during the hand-over ceremony of material to the disabled community in the Abu Shouk camp for displaced persons. The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) delivered 5 wheel chairs, 102 crutches, 75 sticks for blind, tobes and T-shirts.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
03 October 2012. El Geneina: UNAMID Force Commander, Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba (Rwanda) addresses the peacekeepers from Nigeria posted in El Geneina, West Darfur, after a convoy suffered an ambush last night.
Four peacekeepers were killed and eight injured in this ambush by unidentified assailants.
The incident, which involved a Nigerian military patrol, occurred approximately two kilometers from the Mission's regional headquarters.
UNAMID personnel, who were heavily fired upon from several directions, returned fire.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
20 May 2012. Abu Shouk: Fakih (Master) Ahmed Ibrahim teaches Koran to children in Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons. To become a Fahik in Darfur and to be able to practice traditional medicine it is mandatory to memorize the holy book completely. Children start very young repeating the senteces of Koran again and again.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID