The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Darfur region and the Sudanese Government on Sunday signed an agreement to improve prison management and inmates’ living conditions, writes UN News Centre.
The memorandum of understanding was signed in El Fasher, North Darfur, at the headquarters of the mission, known as UNAMID.
It aims to deepen cooperation between the mission and the Government in areas such as training prison personnel, improving prison facilities and promoting prisoner rehabilitation programmes.
Germain Baricako, Director of UNAMID’s Rule of Law division, voiced hope that the implementation of the new agreement will help to provide prison support in a more systematic, coordinated and concentrated manner.
The mission was set up two years ago by the Security Council to protect civilians in Darfur, where at least 300,000 people are estimated to have died and another 2.7 million more have been driven from their homes in over six years of fighting between the Government, its militia allies and various armed groups.
