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An UNMISS patrol team greeted by the community of Lesi in Western Equatoria State, where progress of an ongoing Quick Impact Project was discussed. Photos: Phillip Mbugo/UNMISS WESTERN EQUATORIA – While protecting civilians…

Child protection was on the agenda as South Sudan organized a national conference to address how it can be improved. Photos: Isaac Billy/UNMISS The journey towards a South Sudan where children’s rights to protection, from…

Abyei youth and women’s group representatives joined UNISFA peacekeepers for an evening cultural fete organized at the mission headquarters in Abyei. The festivities were the final event in activities organized by the newly…

Last week, the Secretary-General's Deputy Special Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Sara Beysolow Nyanti, revisited Gondokoro, Central Equatoria, to assess the progress made in demining the area…

In Yei, people displaced after last year's conflict between nomadic herders and settled agriculturalists are still fearful of returning to their original settlements. UNMISS, local authorities and humanitarian partners are…

Women are often “placed second or even ignored” when they are employed as corrections officers in prisons and other detention centres, according to Téné Maimouna Zoungrana, an officer from Burkina Faso serving with the UN…

The Inhabitants of the villages of BWERERE, HALUNGUPA and other surrounding areas welcome the intervention of soldiers from the Malawian contingent in the region. Photo MONUSCO / Force Since the permanent deployment in…

Original reporting: Sophie Boudre & Lauren McAlister / Edited by: Crystal Lee Lauren McAlister from Canada serves with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) as a Gender Affairs Officer, where she helps…

Written by: Filip Andersson and Gaëlle Sundelin / Edited by : Urjasi Rudra Likiso Irene Lasu Silwa has very few memories of her early childhood. She was only a few months old when her mother fled the violence in her native…

Today, at the UNMISS headquarters in Juba, South Sudan, peacekeepers, the diplomatic community and government partners came together in a meaningful and heartfelt ceremony, marked under this year's theme, People, Peace…

Jacqueline Seck, the Director of the Northern Africa Division in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations visited MINURSO from 23 to 27 May 2022. She had extensive meetings with the Mission…

MINURSO celebrated today the International Day of Peacekeepers by organizing a ceremony at the Parade Ground of Mission Headquarters in Laayoune. The Special Representative and Head of Mission, Alexander Ivanko, chaired the…