Peacekeeping news

The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been providing assistance to the election process. Here, in March 2017, a generator is unloaded from a UN helicopter in Popokabaka in the south-west of…

Photo by Mutaz Munafal, UNAMID. United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2429 (2018) has called for the closing of ten Team Sites across Darfur as part of the Mission’s reconfiguration process. The Mission intends…

To mark the International Day of the Girl Child, more than 600 students from the Don Bosco primary and secondary school inaugurated their new peace garden in Juba. Celebrating the event on the peace garden inside Don Bosco…

If school backpacks can transmit as much knowledge to their owners as they seem able to hold to their owners, the 252 girls and boys at Queen’s Nursery and Primary School next to UN House in Juba, some only marginally bigger…

When we first walk into the compound, sixteen-year-old Aben Kon Guon is seated next to a basin of soapy water washing a bright yellow shirt. Across from her on a metal bed with nylon strings forming a firm base, her mother…

The Secretary-General Today, 600 million adolescent girls are preparing to enter a world of work transformed by innovation and automation. They are the largest generation in history and a vast source of ideas and solutions…

A joint African Union-United Nations delegation has concluded a three-day visit to South Sudan, expressing hope for “full cessation of hostilities” and a promise to “hold accountable” those who may derail the peace process…

At the age of five or six, he knew he wanted to be a pilot. He is now 30 - and flies a monstrous craft in those hard-to-go-to places. As his plane touched-down in South Sudan, Flight Lieutenant Conor O’Neill from the…

Flight Lieutenant Conor O’Neill from the Australian Defense Force At the age of five or six, he knew he wanted to be a pilot. He is now 30 - and flies a monstrous craft in those hard-to-go-to places. As his plane touched-down…

Flight Lieutenant Conor O’Neill from the Australian Defense Force At the age of five or six, he knew he wanted to be a pilot. He is now 30, and flies a monstrous craft in those hard-to-go-to places. As his plane touched-down…

Activists and members of women’s groups in Juba are insisting on their crucial role to bringing lasting peace to South Sudan, in light of the country’s revitalized peace agreement signed last month in Addis Ababa. “We need to…