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Despite heavy rain and freezing temperature, UNIFIL Finnish peacekeepers operating under the Mission’s Force Commander’s Reserve participated in a coordinated exercise with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in the southern Lebanese town of Kawkaba, located at the altitude of 750 metres from the sea…

On 9 December 2019, the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations asked Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz to lead an independent assessment of MONUSCO’s response to the high number of attacks against civilians allegedly committed by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Beni…

Leila Zerrougui: "There are clarified provisions to make MONUSCO more effective". Photo MONUSCO/Ascain Zigbia Tayoro Kinshasa, 15 January 2020 - During her first press conference for the year 2020, on Wednesday 15 January in Kinshasa, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head…

Beni: MONUSCO's mandate at the heart of an exchange between MONUSCO Police and community leaders. Photo MONUSCO/UNPOL A Beni-based MONUSCO Police (UNPOL) team met on Tuesday 14 January 2020 with leaders of the Mulekera and Bungulu communities, in the Bundji health area in Beni, North Kivu, to…

Abdoul Aziz Thioye: "the report on the violence in Djugu is not directed against a community". Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie Okala Bunia, 15 January 2020 - The Director of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office, Abdoul Aziz Thioye, paid a brief visit to Bunia in Ituri on Tuesday, 14 January 2020…

Photo by Hamid Abdulsalam,UNAMID. Zalingei, 14 January 2020 - On 13 January, UNAMID Joint Special Representative/Joint Chief Mediator (JSR/JCM), Jeremiah Mamabolo visited the deserted Krinding camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in El Geneina town in West Darfur State, to assess the extent…

The Force Commander of the UN peacekeeping mission on a recent visit to Koch in the Unity region. The UN Mission in South Sudan has temporarily deployed peacekeepers to Koch County in Northern Liech to protect civilians and humanitarian workers and encourage displaced people to return to their homes…

Cattle and a lack of pastures and water points are at the centre of intercommunal clashes in the Greater Lakes region. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan, together with local authorities in Western Lakes, has begun a series of sessions to avoid conflicts in cattle camps ahead of the…

A much-improved security situations means that women (soldiers and/or wives of male troops) can move around freely and thus go about their hard work. "We are happy with the changes that we are seeing as a result of the signing of the [revitalized] peace agreement. The ceasefire is holding up nicely…

Bridges are lifelines, connecting people. This one in Lakes has been repaired by UNMISS engineers. A simple task of meshing together metal pallets and bars to repair a broken bridge has provided a lifeline for communities in the Lakes region of South Sudan, enabling traders to travel more easily and…

The lecturing man has a valid point: children are not soldiers. “I do not want children to suffer like we do in the bushes. They are our future, and we want to open the gates of success for them by removing them from the army,” said a Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition’s Lieutenant Colonel…

Not happy. Several Aweil attending a workshop on human rights complained that their entitlements are ignored. “We, the women in Aweil, are not having even one percent of our rights being respected,” says the local female minister of social development, Arek Ayii Deng. Addressing participants at a…