{"id":65824,"date":"2016-03-11T12:58:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T10:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/security-council-press-statement-on-attack-on-unamid-peacekeepers-darfur\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T12:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T10:58:42","slug":"security-council-press-statement-on-attack-on-unamid-peacekeepers-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/security-council-press-statement-on-attack-on-unamid-peacekeepers-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Council Press Statement on attack on UNAMID Peacekeepers, Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> NEW YORK, United States of America, March 11, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack on African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeepers while accompanying a humanitarian convoy travelling from Kutum to Djarido, North Darfur, by a group of unidentified armed men on 9 March 2016. \u00a0One South African peacekeeper was killed and another injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The members of the Security Council expressed their deep sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims, as well as to the people and Government of South Africa and to UNAMID. \u00a0They wished a speedy recovery to the injured peacekeeper.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The members of the Security Council called on the Government of Sudan to swiftly conduct a full investigation into the attack and bring the perpetrators to justice. \u00a0They underlined that attacks targeting peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The members of the Security Council reiterated their full support for UNAMID and called on all parties in Darfur to cooperate fully with the mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, United States of America, March 11, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack on African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeepers while accompanying a humanitarian convoy travelling from Kutum to Djarido, North Darfur, by a group of unidentified armed men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-65824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}