Peacekeeping news

Photo by Mohammed Elhadi, UNAMID. On 28 August 2019, UNAMID Joint Special Representative (JSR), Jeremiah Mamabolo and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Country Representative in Sudan, Mr. Babagana Ahmadu, signed a…

Major Fidel Hawa has been working as a senior corrections officer at the South Sudan Jubilant Centre in the Wau area for years, despite her limited knowledge of gender-specific needs and the human rights of prisoners.…

Agany Malek, a resident in the Awiel Jedid area of Wau and parent of a local primary school pupil, couldn’t hold back his excitement at seeing a pile of new textbooks, teaching materials and extra-curriculum items stacked up…

A recent mission to establish whether there were children in the armed forces in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria region has returned a clean scoresheet, as not a single child was found within the ranks of both the opposition…

Before armed conflict erupted in South Sudan in 2013, Reverend John Manyang from the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church was leading five churches in the Unity area. With conflict, came destruction of church property…

UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No.246

Calestina Juuku Alfred, who works as a cashier in Wau’s Ministry of Gender and Child Welfare, had never operated a computer, until recently. ‘’I didn’t know anything about a computer. I used commercial computer centres to…

Governors of Gogrial, Tonj and Wau are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to bring peace among their people, following a long-standing inter-communal conflict spurred by cattle raiding and other forms of violence that…

The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) yesterday in Abyei joined the United Nations family globally to observe the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to Victims of Terrorism and participated…

Nicosia, 22 August 2019 – As hunting season commences in Cyprus, UNFICYP cautions that such activities in the buffer zone, as well as the use of weapons, dogs or equipment in this context, is a security risk and strictly…

A community-based rapprochement event saw residents of Juba’s Gumbo-Sherikat neighbourhood converge in one place with the aim of building durable peace together following the signing, in Addis Ababa last year, of a peace…

In the wake of challenges to establish a cantonment site in the Gbudue area for South Sudan’s opposition forces, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Force Commander visited Yambio on Friday, with a high-level…