Peacekeeping news

7 Jun 2021 - Elements to the press by Gert Auväärt, Deputy Permanent Representative of Estonia and President of the Security Council for the month of June, following closed consultations on the Central African Republic. The…

Community representatives from three districts of Juba meet to discuss land grabbing issues. Photos: Moses Pasi/UNMISS With a decades-long history of civil war and several waves of citizens fleeing or being displaced as a…

Young men and women in Aweil discussing how to become ambassadors for peace. Photo: Emmanuel Kele/UNMISS Youth representatives from the five counties of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State say that their frequent idleness, caused…

Jean-Pierre Lacroix. Dear colleagues, Last week, we marked the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers once again in the context of an ongoing pandemic that has impacted all of our operations and made the difficult…

Bangui’s tropical weather is arguably one of its greatest assets – as a source of renewable energy. With average annual temperatures in the Central African Republic’s capital soaring to 29 degrees Celsius, the city’s…

To mark this year’s World Environment Day, UNFICYP personnel joined forces with the Athienou Municipality in the Famagusta area and along with a group of youth rolled up their sleeves clean up parts of the buffer zone in the…

International community efforts to facilitate an inclusive dialogue for the peace and reconciliation process in the Central African Republic (CAR) remain on course – with consultations between the visiting AU-ECCAS-UN-EU…

On the second day of their joint visit to the Central African Republic (CAR), a delegation from the African Union (AU), Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) held…

Top UN envoy in South Sudan, Nicholas Haysom, held his first press conference at the UNMISS headquarters in Juba today. Photo by Isaac Alebe Avoro/UNMISS. [near verbatim] Good morning everybody. Thank you for joining me today…

An UNMISS-facilitated training for local implementing partners in Eastern Equatoria who collaborate with the mission on executing small-scale, low-cost projects addressing urgent community needs received appreciation from…

Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS, Nicholas Haysom, held his first press conference at the mission's headquarters in Juba today. SRSG Haysom focused on the need to prevent subnational…

A joint delegation of African Union (AU), Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) officials on a visit to Bangui between 2 and 5 June 2021 today met with members of…