The UN Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Unit launches its programme in Ed Damazin, Sudan. Fifteen combatants from the Sudanese north-south war, ended with the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, are demobilized during an official ceremony attended by senior governmental officials, donor countries and UN representatives. During the process the ex-soldiers symbolically handed over their weapons, registered and received a DDR ID card, cash, non-food items and a coupon for food rations.