News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

A group of young children visited the UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura, south Lebanon, last week to know about various aspects of the peacekeeping mission’s work. The 45 children, aged between 5 and 12, visited UNIFIL on 8 August as part of their "Jean Paul II summer camp" of Dibbiyeh, which sits in…

The beauty of people and communities connecting through language reverberated inside the walls of Hamam, one of the oldest buildings in Kosovo's multilingual epicentre Prizren, during the city's 18th annual documentary film festival Dokufest. A high-profile panel, organised jointly by UNMIK, IOM and…

A fully refurbished women’s rehabilitation centre has been handed over to a local women’s group in Wau, to help empower them politically and economically. Funded by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) through its Relief, Reintegration and Protection Section’s quick impact projects…

UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No.245

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 delegation of officials from Juba and Li-rangu. “The purpose of my coming…

UNIFIL’s Sector East Commander Brigadier General Rafael Colomer Martinez Del Peral last week opened a sports facility in Blida, south-eastern Lebanon, for which equipment were provided by UNIFIL. Brig. Gen. Peral opened the facility in the presence of Blida Mayor Hasan Hijazi and UNIFIL’s Nepalese…

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 agreement that has seen relative calm return to South Sudan. “We are waiting…

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 prohibited. The Mission strongly urges hunters to refrain from dangerous or…

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 observance of the global minute of silence in honour of Victims of terrorism…

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: The Secretary-General has been following the situation in Jammu and Kashmir with concern and makes an appeal for maximum restraint. The position of the United Nations on this region is governed by…

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 have mostly involved youth groups in the region. Authorities of the three…

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 type and print documents, which cost money. But now I can operate a computer…