MONUSCO Force Commander awards UN Medals to Nepalese peacekeepers
MONUSCO Force Commander awards UN Medals to Nepalese peacekeepers. Photo MONUSCO/Guy KAREMA Bunia, 25 June 2018 – MONUSCO Force Commander, Lieutenant-General E. R. Martins Filho presided over UN Award Ceremony in honor of…
MONUSCO raises awareness of political and civil society actors on peaceful electoral process
MONUSCO raises political parties and civil society actors’ awareness of peaceful electoral process. Photo MONUCO/Paulin MUNANGA Lubumbashi, 22 June 2018 – Holding peaceful elections in Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami and Lualaba…
Perfectly gender balanced Rwandan Formed Police Unit arrives in Juba
On Wednesday 27 June, a Rwandan Formed Police Unit consisting of 50 per cent women arrived in Juba. On Wednesday the United Nations Mission in South Sudan welcomed 144 Rwandan police officers to Juba. They make up the lion…
G5 condemns recent violence and urges armed groups to engage indialogue under the African initiative
The G5, made up of representatives of the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union, the World Bank, the Economic Community of Central African States, France and the United States, condemns in the strongest terms…
UN mourns peacekeeper killed in armed attack at funeral service in South Sudan
Hundreds of colleagues and friends bid a final farewell to Lieutenant Commander Ashraf Siddiqui, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper killed in an ambush earlier this week. Colleagues and friends of fallen peacekeeper Lieutenant…
British soldiers receive medals of honour for commitment and service to the people of South Sudan
Some 140 British peacekeepers have received UN medals for their dedicated work in South Sudan. Growing up, Lieutenant Nick Lytollis dreamed of becoming a world class vet. Unbeknownst to the animal kingdom, it missed out on…
Personal Envoy for Western Sahara visits the territory
Personal Envoy for Western Sahara visits the territory Laâyoune, 28 June 2018 The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, President Horst Köhler, arrived in Laâyoune on 28 June 2018. He was welcomed by…
First Portuguese police officers join UNMISS
Portugal has just sent its first contingent of police officers to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Eight United Nations police officers from Portugal, four women and four men, have recently joined the United Nations…
UNMISS fills know-how gaps among prison officers to address human rights issues
Senior South Sudanese prison officers received certificates after a week-long training on human rights, sexual gender-based violence and community policing. You are a prison officer and an inmate is trying to escape. What can…
UNMISS supports training for a child-free SPLA
Last month more than 200 child soldiers were released in Pibor. SPLA has recommitted to make its army child-free. Senior officers in the South Sudanese army (SPLA) have been meeting in Juba with a view to getting removed from…
UNIFIL donation to new LAF tactical centre in Tyre
Maj. Gen. Michael Beary, UNIFIL Commander, and Brig. Gen. Robert El Alam, representing the LAF Commander, open the LAF Liasion Tactical Operations Center (TOC) in LAF Tyre barracks. UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander…
Security Council renews mandates of UN force monitoring separation area between Israel and Syria; AU-UN hybrid mission in Darfur
Adopting separate resolutions, the United Nations Security Council has extended the mandates of the Organization’s Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and the African Union-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). Unanimously…