UNAMID Defender 110 Medical Vehicle (Nyala 2011)

History

UNAMID, the joint African Union–UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur, ran from 2007 to 2020 and at its height was the largest UN operation in the world, with tens of thousands of troops and police spread across bases in the three Darfur states. Its light vehicle fleet was the standard UN white, largely Toyota and Nissan pick-ups, but Land Rover Defender 110s served too, and this station wagon at Nyala carried the red crescent as a unit medical vehicle.

The Flickr photographs from November 2011 show it under an awning at the Nyala base: white with the UN fleet plate UNAMID 32252 on the front bumper, a red crescent and UNAMID in red on the rear body sides, a red beacon on the roof front, a whip aerial, black wheel-arch eyebrows and white steel wheels. The registry model reproduces those markings on the Defender 110 station wagon.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Defender 110 station wagon)

Manufactured

Puma-era Defender; photographed November 2011

Modifier / coachbuilder

UNAMID (medical markings, beacon)

Engine type

Ford 2.4 L Duratorq TDCi turbo-diesel (typical for the period; not stated in the source)

Production run

unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

Sudan, United Nations

Status

historic

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Defender

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

110″

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Sources & citations

Researched sources

• UNAMID Land Rover 32252, Nyala (Flickr) ↗ — Flickr (accessed 2026-09-12)
• UNAMID Land Rover 32252, Nyala, rear view (Flickr) ↗ — Flickr (accessed 2026-09-12)

Catalogue references

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/61181382@N05/6399020569/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61181382@N05/6399020569/ ↗