Independent assessment of MONUSCO’s response to recent attacks against civilians in Béni area, DRC
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…
Leila Zerrougui: "There are clarified provisions to make MONUSCO more effective".
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…
Beni: MONUSCO's mandate at the heart of an exchange between MONUSCO Police and community leaders
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…
Abdoul Aziz Thioye: "the report on the violence in Djugu is not directed against a community"
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…
UNAMID Joint Special Representative visits El Geneina in West Darfur following intercommunal clashes
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…
Residents in Koch welcome deployment of peacekeepers to protect civilians, encourage displaced to return home
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…
UNMISS begins campaign to preempt deadly clashes between cattle camps in Lakes region
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…
Security and livelihoods: Opposition soldiers reflect on hopes and life in a cantonment site
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…
Bridge repair by Thai peacekeeping engineers provides a lifeline for communities in Lakes region
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…
Panyume opposition forces working hard to remove all children from their ranks
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…
Rights of Aweil women not being respected, says local minister of social development
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…
Pibor residents upbeat after rehabilitation of area airstrip by Korean UN peacekeepers
Back in business: A passenger aircraft at the newly rehabilitated Pibor airstrip A bottle of water retails at 200 South Sudanese pounds or SSP (just under $1) in Boma area’s Pibor town. But that is a smaller matter. To get…