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The U.N.-AU peacekeeping force in Darfur known as UNAMID, said in a statement that Adada's resignation takes effect from the thirty-first of August . Search For Replacement U.N. spokeswoman, Marie Okabe said the world body was working closely with the AU to find a replacement for Rodolphe Adada, a former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Congo. Other U.N. officials said the United Nations and AU were considering several candidates from different parts of Africa.
Deputy head of U.N.-AU peacekeeping force in Darfur, General Henry Anyidoho of Ghana, would head the mission until a permanent replacement for Adada is named. U.N.-AU peacekeeping force in Darfur was established by a U.N. Security Council resolution passed in July 2007.
The conflict
in Sudan's western Darfur region has been on for
more than six years. A total of three hundred
thousand people have died since 2003. Reuters/ Qasim / Funke |
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The
head of the joint United Nations-African Union
Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan’s Darfur region,
Rodolphe Adada, a former Foreign Minister of the
Republic of Congo has resigned.