UNAMID calls for collaborative approach to Darfur weapons collection in IDP camps

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN African Union Peace keeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has again called on the Sudanese government to avoid forceful entries into camps for internally displaced persons with the aim of collecting firearms from civilians, a part of a government arms collection campaign A UNAMID press release, received by PANA in Khartoum, said on the 2nd of November 2017, armed government forces entered the Kalma IDP camp, South Darfur, “in a show of force” to conduct a weapons collection campaign in the state