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26 May 2009
Breaking down barriers in Sudan
Breaking through multiple language barriers in the midst of one of Africa’s worst ongoing conflicts is all in a day’s work for Operation HEDGEROW.
Operation HEDGEROW is the ADF’s commitment to the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) – a 26,000-strong peacekeeping operation in central Africa.
Since 2003, violence between rebels and tribal elements against government troops and militias has resulted in approximately 450,000 people being killed, including members of UNAMID.
In August 2008, the ADF initiated Operation HEDGEROW, with an eight-person team sent to provide logistics and movements support to the UNAMID Headquarters element in the town of El Fashir.
El Fashir is an important provincial capital in Darfur, but is more than 1200km from the port of Sudan on the Red Sea, with little in the way of local infrastructure to assist the UNAMID mission.
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