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My name is Odette Kwizera. I am from Burundi. I have spent 3 years and 4 months in Mali as a United Nations volunteer. I work as a radio producer with Mikado FM, the United Nations radio in Mali and one of MINUSMA’s Public Information and Strategic Communication Division’s Units. I am assigned in…

At an undisclosed location in South Sudan’s Unity region, a rape survivor narrates her ordeal. “We were coming back from the town, and on our way, we found people, and these people looted our items. After that, they tied us for eight hours in the bush, and then at 4:00am, they released us,” narrates…

Khartoum, 09 December 2018 – The 14th meeting of the Implementation Follow-up Commission (IFC) of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) was held today in Khartoum, Sudan. The Commission discussed progress made and the challenges faced in the implementation of the DDPD since its last meeting…

The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara Ladies, Gentlemen, thank you all for coming, I am very pleased to be here, I will read a short statement and then I am happy to provide you with some of my impressions from our meetings held here in Geneva. I will not be taking any…

They came before dawn. Arriving in Freedom Square in the murky pre-morning light, hundreds of athletes stretched their legs and jogged on the spot as they prepared to challenge themselves and each other in a 10-kilometre race around the streets of South Sudan’s capital city. The runners come from…

UNMISS PoC sites Update No.221

Senior army officers in Yei, learning about the human costs of war, the rights and suffering of victims of sexual violence. “If we don’t stand firm to end this war, we shall have no future. Young girls are being raped every day, yet grandmothers are not spared either. I do not know where we are…

The author, Gideon Sackitey (right) helps colleagues to offload mattresses - part of the items they donated to the children's ward at Bor Town Hospital - from a truck. It was all joy in August this year when I received an email that I had been selected as a United Nations Volunteer; I would be…

My name is Angela Peca and I am 30 years old. I am a proud Portuguese, born and bred in the city of Coimbra. I am also nationalized British as I have worked and lived in the city of London. I am an UNV Nurse at the Level I Clinic of MINUSMA in Timbuktu in charge of providing emergent and non…

“I had very productive meetings with Their Excellencies President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri in Beirut today. I briefed the President and the Speaker on developments in connection with tunnels along the Blue Line. This is a serious matter and UNIFIL is working in close coordination with the…

The head of the United Nations peace mission in Lebanon has urged an end to “rumours and speculations” over tunnels which have been discovered along the UN-drawn “Blue Line” – the border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel. After a meeting with the Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, Major General…

The good people of Yei certainly knows how to have a good time, here celebrating Human Rights Day. It was a blast! A harmless and joyous one, to boot. Residents of Yei this week rose to the occasion to celebrate Human Rights Day en masse. “I am delighted to celebrate this day as a blind man. It has…