Peacekeeping news

UNAMID photo. Female peace keepers from Pakistan’s Field Hospital operating from the Mission’s Team Site in Kabkabiya, north Darfur, recently organized a Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign in the Locality to sensitize the host…

The Deputy Special Adviser (DSASG) / Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG), Ms. Elizabeth Spehar, held her first, bilateral meeting with Mr. Ersin Tatar as the Turkish Cypriot leader today. They discussed a…

On 7-8 November, UNMIK Youth, Peace and Security programme partnered with UNICEF Innovations Lab Kosovo, NGO “Peer Educators Network” and NGO “United Youth Task Force” multi-ethnic network of young Kosovo peacebuilders to…

Photo by Foday Conta, UNAMID. On 5th November, UNAMID Police Commissioner, General Landing Kinteh, joined the Director General of Sudan Police Force (SPF), Lieutenant General Dr. Ezz El-Deen Al-Sheekh and delegation to…

258 UNMISS peacekeepers from Bangladesh were awarded the prestigious United Nations medal for their contribution to the mission's efforts to build durable peace in South Sudan at a special ceremony in Juba. Across South Sudan…

Ethics, crime scene management and the rights of suspects being detained were a few topics at an UNMISS-organized workshop for police officers in Aweil. Nineteen South Sudanese police officers, including four women, in…

UNAMID photo. On 8-9 November, UNAMID Human Rights Office, convened a capacity-building and awareness-raising workshop on sexual and gender-based violence and conflict-related gender-based violence (CRSV/SGBV) for 51…

UNIFIL’s Ghanaian peacekeepers recently participated in a complex exercise with Italian peacekeepers in south-western Lebanon with the aim of enhancing operational interoperability between reserve assets of the two units. As…

All smiles (behind face masks) as an UNMISS-funded renovation of a primary school is handed over to residents in Alur County. Citizens in Alur County in Western Bahr el Ghazal are positively jubilant: funds from the United…

Traditional leaders in Yambio learning more about the provisions of the revitalized peace agreement. Traditional leaders in Yambio have been taken through every chapter of South Sudan’s Revitalized Peace Agreement, not least…

UNMISS and the South Sudan National Police Services sign operation coordination agreement empowering the local police service to assume primary responsibility for the protection of all citizens. With a ceasefire deal and a…

To mark the last day of the United Nations Police Week, eleven UNFICYP peacekeepers from the UN Police (UNPOL) were awarded medals for their contributions to peace in Cyprus, in a ceremony held at the UN Headquarters in…