Learning presentations during Damazine course
Contact between UNMIS and Sudanese soldiers monitoring the country's ceasefire in Upper Nile state will vastly improve following a series of basic computer courses.
The courses will give so-called National Monitors basic computer skills, allowing them to communicate more quickly on troop movements, Joint Integrated Units (combined Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) forces), accidents and other unforeseen events.
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"(Previously) we had to rely on letters delivered by hand or mobile phones, which for obvious reasons are not a very reliable means of communicating," said an SAF officer attending the first course in Ed Damazine from 4 to 8 September.
Organized by the area's UN Military Observers in coordination with the Integrated Mission Training Centre, the series consists of five one-week basic computer courses. Training focuses on operating a computer, operating a Windows programme, writing a report in word, excel and power point, using the internet and creating email accounts.
Ahmed El Karouri teaching computer skills in
Ed Damazine
"This training will help us to communicate with the SPLA and SAF ... so that implementation of the CPA (Comprehensive Peace Agreement) takes place more smoothly," said Lt Col Muhammad Mohy, UNMO coordinator for Ed Damazine. |
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