UN-AU mission in Sudan’s Darfur ends mandate after 13 years
The UNAMID peacekeeping mission was deployed in Darfur in 2007 to end a bitter conflict that erupted in 2003.
The resolution was adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council, leading to a six month drawdown of UN Security personnel from the Darfur region which erupted with violence back in 2003 and led the deaths of over a quarter million people and displaced millions more. The Genocide was the result of an uprising in the region by non-Arab forces which lead to a retaliation by Sudanese government forces and Arab Janjaweed militia who engaged in a campaign of mass murder and slavery targeting the largely Black, Animist and Christian Darfuri locals.
With the ouster of President al-Bashir in 2019 and the creation of a transitional government whose goal is free and fair elections as well as recent peace deals with most of the Darfuri Rebel groups (though not the largest one) the United Nations apparently decided to replace their security mission with a political one. Many Darfuri are protesting the decision however.
