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UN Photo/Evan Schneider - Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, briefs the Security Council, 17 December 2018. The decision by Kosovo’s parliament to form a national army was described by…

UNMISS PoC sites Update No.222 UNMISS PoC sites Update No.222

At UN News, 2018 kicked off with UNICEF’s “challenge” to all nations to make sure more newborns survive their first days of life by ensuring they are protected from treatable diseases as well as having access to proven, low…

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has confirmed the existence of at least two tunnels crossing the “Blue Line” – the border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel – but they “do not appear thus far” to have…

An agreement on how to manage cattle migrations affecting people living in a number of counties in the Eastern Equatoria region has been reached. The people living in the Torit and Kapoeta regions have signed an agreement to…

The rights of the girl-child were discussed and affirmed at a cultural festival organized by UNMISS in Torit. “Torit give us a chance! Marriage is between adults, not between an adult and a child. We are left without a future…

El Fasher, 20 December 2018 – The African Union – United Nation Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) today concluded the closure and handover of 10 team sites to the Government of Sudan, with Graida team site in South Darfur…

GENEVA/KINSHASA (19 December 2018) – Hundreds of extrajudicial killings and cases of torture and sexual violence against civilians have been documented during the last two years in North Kivu province in the Democratic…

UNIFIL’s Ghanaian peacekeepers provided a training on map reading, global positioning system and and first aid to members of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in their main base in Al-Qawzah, south-western Lebanon, this week…