MONUSCO facilitates access to medical care for inmates at Uvira’s Mulunge prison
The MONUSCO Corrections Unit and the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) have enabled 350 prisoners and detainees at Mulunge Central Prison in Uvira to exercise “their right to access health care ". It is thanks…
UNMISS visits conflict-ridden Tonj East area to build trust and confidence
A team from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has visited the Jalwau County headquarters in Wunlit in the East Tonj region in a bid to put an end to an escalation of violence, including cattle raiding and revenge…
UNIFIL MTF and LAF Navy step up joint exercises, enhance capabilities
The UNIFIL Maritime Task Force (MTF), deployed since October 2006, has stepped up its joint activities with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Navy, with some 750 joint activities having been already conducted this year. MTF…
Maintaining momentum key to progressing peace process in South Sudan
Maintaining momentum key to progressing peace process in South Sudan
Peacekeepers partner with women in clean-up campaign in Eastern Equatoria
Wielding hoes, slashers and rakes, more than 40 women with infants strapped to their backs joined Rwandan peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) this week in a community-wide clean-up…
Female opposition soldiers in Mogok talk on being torn between war and peace
“We have a cause to fight. We don’t just enjoy being in the military, we have decided to take up arms to defend our children,” says Captain Rebecca Nya Piuudup in opposition-controlled Mogok in Greater Jonglei. Their children…
UNIFIL MTF and LAF Navy step up exercises, enhance capabilities
The UNIFIL Maritime Task Force (MTF), deployed since October 2006, has stepped up its tactical training activities with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Navy, with some 750 joint activities having been already conducted this…
SRSG Tanin holds regular consultations in Belgrade ahead of Security Council session on Kosovo
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, met with the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić and the Director of the…
UNIFIL Head of Mission hosts LAF Commander
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col today welcomed the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander, General Joseph Aoun, who visited the headquarters of UNIFIL’s eastern and western Sectors…
UN SLFs conduct training on human rights for rural courts judges and native administration in South Darfur
Photo by Rihab Hassan, UNAMID. From 12 – 13 September 2019, the UN State Liaison Functions (SLFs) at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in South Darfur State in collaboration with the Judiciary in the State organized…
Juba public ponder potential coming of peace as details of agreement are explained
A state of mind. An elusive dream. Hard-fought with many casualties. Agreed on. Waiting to happen. Partially achieved. Already here. The progress of peace, it seems, is a matter of perceptions. In South Sudan in 2019, peace…
Training geared at eliminating conflict-related sexual violence held in Central Upper Nile
Last week, more than 40 senior members of opposition forces in Diel, Central Upper Nile, gathered during a two-day workshop facilitated by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Their aim was to identify concrete…