UNITED NATIONS Mission in Sudan (UNMISUD) - Norwegian Medical Unit sleeve patch, early, desert

Silk bevo construction. Early variant: mission abbreviation later changed to UNMIS.

The United Nations Mission in the Sudan was established by the UN Security Council under Resolution 1590 of 24 March 2005, in response to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the government of the Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement on January 9, 2005 in Nairobi, Kenya. It's tasks was to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, to perform certain functions relating to humanitarian assistance, protection, promotion of human rights, and to support African Union Mission in Sudan. The mandate of UNMIS ended on 9 July 2011.