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French-led Force Commander’s reserve gets new commander
The command of UNIFIL’s French-led Force Commander’s Reserve (FCR) changed from Colonel Bastian Dufilhol to Colonel Olivier Baudet during a ceremony at the Reserve’s main base in Dayr Kifa on Monday. With the change in…
As Syria conflict enters eighth year, UN agencies join call for peace and safe aid delivery
Two United Nations relief agencies on Wednesday joined a chorus of international organizations and partners in the quest to end seven years of conflict in Syria, urging warring parties to allow humanitarian access for the…
UN Peacekeepers speedily contain fire outbreak in Bentiu Market for displaced people
UNMISS peacekeepers quickly intervened to put out a fire which threatened to engulf more than 100 shops in the Bentiu protection of civilians site. Traders at a protection of civilians site in Bentiu have praised United…
Young people pledge to work for peace in Western Lakes area
Some 80 youth in the Western Lakes area attended a workshop on how to improve their capacity to play a positive role in peace building. The Rumbek Field Office of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has held a workshop…
‘Give peace a chance; give children a chance,’ senior UN peacekeeping official says visiting South Sudan
All stakeholders in South Sudan must “engage genuinely and constructively in finding a political solution” to the conflict there, a senior United Nations peacekeeping official said at the end of her four-day visit.
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Near verbatim of ASG Bintou Keita’s opening statement at UN Tomping Base in Juba, South Sudan 19 April 2018
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita and UNMISS Chief David Shearer addressing the media at a press conference in Juba on 19 April 2018. I am concluding a four-day visit in South Sudan during which I had…
South Sudanese students break ethnic boundaries through Peace and Human Rights clubs
Laat Luka and Daniel Deng Joseph in Rumbek belong to different ethnic groups but have become friends forever. Photo: UNMISS/Eric Kanalstein Students at Abukloi Secondary School in Rumbek, in the Western Lakes region of South…
‘Save peace while it lasts,’ says General Assembly President, ahead of UN summit on sustaining peace
The world needs a new approach to peace, which is why the United Nations General Assembly will hold a major meeting next week to discuss ways to foster peace by focusing on conflict prevention, mediation, dialogue and…
INTERVIEW: ‘I want to contribute to the service of humanity,’ says first-time UN peacekeeper from Indonesia
It is Hernawan Rizky Yudhantoro’s first deployment with an international peacekeeping operation. The Indonesian police officer serves with the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), a region of…