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UN envoy to Darfur supports peace talks in Doha
Ibrahim Gambari, the new head of the joint UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has gone to Doha to provide his support to the ongoing Darfur peace talks.
Ibrahim Gambari
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky explains.
"He is expected to meet with Joint Chief Mediator Djibril Bassolé, members of the Qatari Foreign Ministry, senior Sudanese government officials and rebel officials. Planned discussions include Sudanese-Chadian relations as well as regional security."
Up to 300,000 people are thought to have died and at least two and a half million have been displaced from their homes in Darfur, since fighting broke out in 2003 between the Government and its allied militias and rebel groups.
Meanwhile, UNAMID has welcomed the safe release of Laurent Maurice, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross who was held for nearly three months by unknown gunmen in eastern Chad, near the Sudanese border.
Bissera Kostova, United Nations.
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