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: UNAMID Senegalese engineers are testing a new water pump for the well in Kuma Garadayat (North Darfur).

The water pump is part of a Quit Impact Project (QIT) that plans also 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

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

9 December 2012. Kabkabiya: The UNAMID team site in Kabkabiya, North Darfur.

Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.

1 April 2012. El Fasher: Members of the UNAMID Military contingent from Rwanda posted in Zam Zam (North Darfur) participate at the "Lend your leg" campaign organized by UN to commemorate the International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action (4 April).

"Lend Your Leg" is a campaign that encourages people worldwide by a simple but symbolic gesture of rolling up a pant leg or sleeve to stop the damage land mines still cause while showing solidarity with all survivors of land mines and other explosive remnants of war."

Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID

26 March 2012. Kutum: UNAMID peacekeeper Caporal Hermanus de Wee, from South Africa, inside an Armored Personnel Carrier (APIC) patrols at night in Kassab camp for internal displaced people, in Kutum (North Darfur).

Night patrols are recently launch to give more confidence to the local community due to the increase of banditry (robbery and rapes) in the area by common criminals.

In the UNAMID Kutum base there are 380 South African troops based who organize three patrols every day.

Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net

23 May 2012. Khartoum: (From left to right) Minister of Interior of Chad, Ahmat Mahamat Bachir, Minister of Interior of Central African Republic, Claude-Richard Gouandjia, and a representative of the Government of Democratic Republic of Congo, at the Regional Conference of Small Arms and Light Weapons at the Frienship Hall in Khartoum, Sudan.

The main objective of this conference is to enhance coordination efforts on small arms control among Sudan’s neighboring countries including Libya, the Central African Republic, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and to strengthen security and stability in border areas, and promote sustainable peace and social and economic development in the region.

Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID

20 November 2012. Nertiti: Members of the UNAMID battalion from Rwanda posted in Nertiti, Central Darfur, perform traditional dances from Rwanda at the official opening of the new Nertiti Women Market, a building where about twenty local women will be able to sell their products (mostly vegetables) in better conditions (they used to sell outdoors).

This building was constructed by the UNAMID battalion from Rwanda posted in Nertiti.

Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.

8 December 2012. El Fasher: A relative of a patient waits 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.

21 June 20012. Abu Shouk: "Fakih" (master on traditional medicine), Sidig Ahmad Mohamed, prepares a treatment against mental illnesses. The client has to smell the smoke that comes up from a piece of paper (with Koran sentences written on it) fired with charcoal, roots from Sudan and species from India. This treatment usually costs between 100-200 Sudanese pounds (20-40 US dollars), depending on the level of the sickness. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID

17 May is annually commemorated as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. In his message, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges leaders to encourage young entrepreneurs in pioneering transformative technology which helps realize lives of dignity for all people, as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Here, young Darfuris are pictured at a shop selling mobile phones in the El Fasher market, North Darfur. Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.

14 November 2012. El Geneina: Staff members of the Teaching Hospital in El Geneina, West Darfur, receive the first vaccination treatment on 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 organizations 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: A UNAMID military officer inspects a bullet found in the area where a UNAMID convoy 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

24 July 2012. Gereida: Soldier Tesfaye Asehe, member of the Ethiopian troops that UNAMID has deployed in Gereida (South Darfur), patrols in Babanusa camp for internally displaced persons.

The area is controlled by the Government of Sudan forces, despite a recent attack by the rebel forces who occupied Gereida for 24 hours.

Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID

30 March 2011. Muhkjar: Peacekeepers from Thailand on the long road patrol from Muhkjar (West Darfur) to Buru (more than 50 km to the south). Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID

1 April 2012. El Fasher: Members of the UNAMID Military contingent from Rwanda posted in Zam Zam (North Darfur) participate at the "Lend your leg" campaign organized by UN to commemorate the International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action (4 April).

"Lend Your Leg" is a campaign that encourages people worldwide by a simple but symbolic gesture of rolling up a pant leg or sleeve to stop the damage land mines still cause while showing solidarity with all survivors of land mines and other explosive remnants of war."

Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID

30 March 2011. Buru (West Darfur): Doctor Liutenant Vittaya Jiraanankul (from Thailand and based in Muhkjar) examines sick children in Buru (more than 50 km to the south of the team site in Muhkjar). Most 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

27 August 2012. Kutum: Women wait to receive their food rations 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

3 February 2012. El Fasher: Public of the horse racing in El Fasher taking photos with their cellphones after the last race.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net

20 November 2012. Nertiti: Women in Nertiti, Central Darfur, celebrate the official opening of the new Women Market, a building where about twenty local women will be able to sell their products (mostly vegetables) in better conditions (they used to sell outdoors).

This building was constructed by the UNAMID battalion from Rwanda posted in Nertiti.

Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.

27 September 2011. Um Kadada: Egyptian soldiers, members of the UNAMID troops posted in Um Kadada (North Darfur), patrol inside in an APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) in Nazaha (East Um Kadada).

860 troops from Egypt are posted in Um Kadada where they assume the responsibility of the security. However, since 2010, this area is free of clashes and there is no camps for displaced people. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID

7 January 2011. Shangil Tubaya: US Senator John Kerry visits the sorroundings of UNAMID team site in Shangil Tubaya (North Darfur), where more than 4,000 people settled down since December due to the fights beetween the government and rebel militias. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID

8 February 2012. El Fasher: People at the El Negaa Stadium in El Fasher welcome the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, president of Chad, General Idriss Déby, and the leader of Justice Movement (LJM) Eltigani Seisi, at the public rally in occasion of the launching of the temporary headquarters of the DRA (Darfur Regional Authority).

The establishment of the DRA is part of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), signed by the Government of Sudan and the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) and its Chairperson is Eltigani Seisi, the leader of the LJM.

The DRA has the primary responsibility for coordinating the implementation of the DDPD stipulations as well as all post-conflict development activities and projects.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID

10 December. 2013. El Fasher: a group perform a show during the event to commemorate the international Human Rights day , organized by UNAMID Human Rights Unit in El Fasher, North Darfur. The event intends to raise awareness in communities , Photo by Hamid Abdulsalam, UNAMID

19 July 2012. El Fasher: A disabled person is accommodated in a wheelchair given during the hand-over ceremony in which items were donated to the disabled community in the Abu Shouk camp for displaced persons. The United Nations Volunteers office delivered five wheelchairs, 102 crutches, 75 sticks for blind, tobes and T-shirts.

Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID

8 December 2012. El Fasher: Patients lay down in a corridor of the pediatric area of El Fasher Hospital, North Darfur. Everyday there are more than one hundred patients are admitted in this area and the ministry of Health started the construction of a Pediatric Hospital in the Eastern part of the city but there aren't funds to continue.

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.

03 October 2012. El Geneina: 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

21 June 20012. Abu Shouk: "Fakih" (master on traditional medicine), Sidig Ahmad Mohamed, prepares a treatment against mental illnesses. The client has to smell the smoke that comes up from a piece of paper (with Koran sentences written on it) fired with charcoal, roots from Sudan and species from India. This treatment usually costs between 100-200 Sudanese pounds (20-40 US dollars), depending on the level of the sickness. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID

2 August 2012. El Fasher: UNAMID peacekeepers, Formed Police Unite (FPU) members from Indonesia, perform their evening prayers for Ramadan in the mosque at the base 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

3 April 2012. El Fasher: Abdurrahim Ahmed Mohamed (12 years old) is pictured in his house in Al Salam camp for displaced persons. Abdurrahim lost his right hand and the sight on his left eye due to a detonation of an unexploded ordnance (UXO).

It happened in 2008 in Kabkabiya, his original village, when Abdurrahim and his friends found the UXO near his house. They started playing with it until it detonated.

Abdurrahim, who wants to become a doctor, 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

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

28 March 2012. Forog: UNAMID peacekeepers from South Africa work on the installation of a plastic tank in Forog, 45 kilometers North of Kutum (North Darfur).

The UNAMID peacekeepers from South Africa, based in Kutum, transported two trucks with 30,000 liters of water for the local population (9,000 people) to be able to build a clinic.

The area is controlled by the rebel movement SLA / Abdul Wahid and, according to the community leaders, there is a serious lack of water.

Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID

10 December. 2013. El Fasher: a group perform a show during the event to commemorate the international Human Rights day , organized by UNAMID Human Rights Unit in El Fasher, North Darfur. The event intends to raise awareness in communities , Photo by Hamid Abdulsalam, UNAMID

8 December 2012. El Fasher: A nurse is medicating a patient 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 November 2011. El Fasher: Physiotherapist Fatima Mohamed is applying a massage to Naba Mohamed (6 months) who suffers serious problems of mobility in her legs and feet. On the right, her mother Faiza Ittain.

This is the center of the Sudanese Association for Disabled People in El Fasher, an organization that takes care of all disabled people in Darfur.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net

2 November 2011. El Fasher: Habib Hamdul is deaf and a member of the center of the Sudanese Association for Disabled People in El Fasher.

The organization takes care of all disabled people in Darfur.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID

18 March 2011. Fanga Suk: Members of the coalition of rebel forces (SLA Minni Minawi, SLA Abdul Wahid and LJM) who control Fanga Suk village, in East Jebel Marra (West Darfur), 88 kilometres West Tawilla. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID

3 February 2012. El Fasher: The first attendants arrive at the horse racing in El Fasher.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net

21 June 20012. Abu Shouk: Fakih (master on traditional medicine), Sidig Ahmad Mohamed, prepares a treatment against mental illnesses. The client has to smell the smoke that comes up from a piece of paper (with Koran sentences written on it) fired with charcoal, roots from Sudan and species from India. This treatment usually costs between 100-200 Sudanese pounds (20-40 US dollars), depending on the level of the sickness. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID

23 May 2012. Khartoum: Minister of Interior of Libya, Fawzi Abdel A'al, has a seat at the Frienship Hall in Khartoum, Sudan, before starting the last day of the Regional Conference of Small Arms and Light Weapons. The main objective of this conference is to enhance coordination efforts on small arms control among Sudan’s neighboring countries including Libya, the Central African Republic, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and to strengthen security and stability in border areas, and promote sustainable peace and social and economic development in the region.

Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID

19 July 2012. El Fasher: A disabled person is accommodated in a wheelchair given during the hand-over ceremony in which items were donated to the disabled community in the Abu Shouk camp for displaced persons. The United Nations Volunteers office delivered five wheelchairs, 102 crutches, 75 sticks for blind, tobes and T-shirts.

Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID