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Throughout the colonial period, the police lacked the resources and manpower to deploy officers throughout Sudan. [ 1 ] Instead, the government gave tribal leaders authority to maintain order among their people and to enlist a limited number of “retainers” to help them in law-enforcement duties. [ 1 ] This communal security system remained ...
t. e. The United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) was established by the UN Security Council under Resolution 1590 [1] of 24 March 2005, in response to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the government of the Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement on January 9, 2005, in Sudan.
2021 Sudanese coup d'état. On 25 October 2021, the Sudanese military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, took control of the Government of Sudan in a military coup. At least five senior government figures were initially detained. [7] Civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok refused to declare support for the coup and on 25 October called for ...
National Police Service; Common name: South Sudan Police Service: Abbreviation: SSPS: Agency overview; Formed: 2009: Employees: 50,000: Annual budget: $100m ...
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) is a United Nations peacekeeping force in Abyei, which is contested between the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan. UNISFA was approved on 27 June 2011 by the United Nations Security Council in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1990 after a flareup in the South ...
The 2019–2022 Sudanese protests were street protests in Sudan which began in mid-September 2019, during Sudan's transition to democracy, about issues which included the nomination of a new Chief Justice and Attorney General, [6] the killing of civilians by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), [1] [2] the toxic effects of cyanide and mercury from gold mining in Northern state and South Kordofan ...
Conflicts between the government and rebel groups—the civil war involving north–south tensions, the Darfur conflict involving Arab tribespeople tensions in the Darfur region in the western region of Sudan—have resulted in rape, torture, killings, and massive population displacements (estimated at over 2 million in 2007), earning Sudan a comparison to Rwanda in the press.
1591 →. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1590, adopted unanimously on 24 March 2005, after recalling resolutions 1547 (2004), 1556 (2004), 1564 (2004), 1574 (2004), 1585 (2005) and 1588 (2005) on the situation in Sudan, the Council established the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) for an initial period of six months. [1]