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The lives of six guards and their driver were taken Monday during an attack on the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation in the Virunga Park, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – drawing…

Cattle camp leaders and farmers from three neighbouring communities in Duk Padiet, in the Jonglei region of South Sudan, have reached an agreement to ensure peaceful cattle migration following a two-day conference supported by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). A resolution was…

Country Representative, Office of the High Commisioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Liberia , Mr. Uchenna Emoloye, representing UNMIL, at the DNA machine handover ceremony. © UNMIL / Shpend Bërbatovci 10 April 2018, Monrovia – As part of the UNMIL’s programmatic project “Support to the Liberian…

We, representatives of the African Union and the United Nations, decided to undertake a joint visit to the Central African Republic (CAR) to express our solidarity and full support to the Central African people and for the peace process in the Central African Republic. We also share a message of…

While Malians must ensure the successful holding of elections this year, their priority should be the implementation of the 2015 peace agreement, a senior United Nations official said Wednesday.

UNMISS fire response teams remove swiftly crash-landed plane from runway Fire response teams from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) swiftly removed a cargo flight that crash-landed at Wau Airport from the runway, making it safe for flights to resume their operations normally. The…

A Lebanese Armed Forces officer checks the route for a joint foot patrol along the Blue Line with an Indonesian peacekeeper in the vicinity of El Adeisse, south Lebanon. By Tilak Pokharel ‘Foot patrols up by nearly 60 per cent in eight months while joint UNIFIL and LAF activities increased by 34 per…

Birds and stray animals have been devouring mangoes left behind by fleeing residents of South Sudan’s Greater Kajokeji, a joint UNMISS-IGAD mission to the area was told this week. “Kajo-Keji is covered with mango trees almost in every corner of the streets, and even a poor person can survive because…

Photo by Mohamad Almahady, UNAMID. On 10 April 2018, the United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, and the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ambassador Smail Chergui, concluded a joint visit to Sudan, which aimed at…

Silhouette of a detained soldier in Liberia. Photo: Staton Winter | UNMIL | 25 Jan 13 Marcel Akpovo, Chief of Human Rights Protection Service and Representative of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Liberia Mr. Akpovo is a human rights lawyer and media expert from Benin…

Female students marching on the streets of Monrovia to commemorate International Human Rights Day. Photo: Staton Winter | UNMIL | 10 Dec 12 In 2005, in line with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which ended the Liberian civil war, the Independent National Human Rights Commission (INCHR) was…

Prison inmates attend a meeting with UNMIL personnel at the Kakata Central Prison, Margibi County. Photo: Staton Winter | UNMIL | 14 June 12 The Principal Rule of Law Officer manages the justice, corrections and security sector reform components of the Mission, coordinates across UN police and human…