Mission overview
112 missions
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Pakistani civil war emergency relief
When British India was decolonised in 1947, the Indian Muslims were granted their own state, Pakistan, split into West Pakistan ...
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Air lift in Sudan
Sudan became independent on 1 January 1956. In theory, the new state was secular, but in practice Islamic principles formed the ...
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Food distribution in West Africa
In the years prior to the summer of 1973, there had been virtually no rainfall in West Africa. The severe drought brought famine ...
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Sahel detachment in Darfur
Between 1968 and 1974, the Sahel had had virtually no rainfall, not even in the rainy season. Severe famine was the result. ...
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United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
In 1975, a civil war broke out in Lebanon, a land once known because of its riches as 'the Switzerland of the Middle East'. That ...
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Multinational Force and Observers (MFO)
During the Six-Day War in June 1967, Israel seized the Sinai from Egypt. On 26 March 1979 in the American Camp David, Israel ...
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Emergency assistance for Ethiopia
At the end of the 1970s, a civil war was raging in North Ethiopia. The Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) was fighting the ...
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Minehunting in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez
In the months of July and August 1984, merchant shipping in the Gulf of Suez and the southern part of the Red Sea was rocked by ...
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The Iran-Iraq war
The war began on 21 September 1980 with an Iraqi attack on Iran. Iraq wanted to adjust the border demarcation in the Shatt ...
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United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG)
In 1920, the League of Nations granted South Africa the mandate over the former German colony of South-West Africa. South Africa ...