A/HRC/4/41 page 83 other seven, the Working Group decided that the responses were not sufficient to clarify the cases. A communication from the Government dated 29 June 2006 could not be translated by the United Nations translation services in time for consideration by the Working Group for inclusion in the present report. Information from sources 401. No information was received from sources regarding outstanding cases. Request for a visit 402. Following a decision of the Working Group, a request for a visit was sent to the Government of the Sudan on 20 December 2005. The Working Group has not yet received a reply. Summary of the situation prior to the period under review 403. The majority of the 323 cases of disappearance reported in the past concerned 249 villagers who were allegedly abducted from the village of Toror in the Nuba Mountains in 1995 by the Armed Forces and taken to a Government-controlled “peace camp”. Another 54 disappeared persons were mainly members of the Sudan Liberation Army who were allegedly arrested after clashes with government forces in Dissa and Abu Gamra in June and August 2003. Three cases concerned civilians who were arrested by government forces at Serif Amra in July 2003. 404. Another group of cases were transmitted by the Working Group in 2005, including the cases of 19 members of the Fur and Dajo communities who reportedly were arrested by armed forces and Janjaweed militia from their homes and from Adwa village north of Nyala, and six persons who were reportedly arrested and disappeared during an attack by armed forces on Gedel Haboub. Total cases transmitted, clarified and outstanding 405. In the past and during the period under review, the Working Group has transmitted 367 cases to the Government; of those, 4 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the source, 200 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the Government and 163 cases remain outstanding. Observations 406. Although the Working Group did not receive any report of new cases this year, the Working Group remains concerned about disappearances in the Sudan. 407. The Working Group also reiterates its request for an invitation from the Government of the Sudan to conduct a country visit so as to assist the Government in preventing disappearances and in clarifying outstanding cases.