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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 any kind of medical service, each member of the area’s impoverished…

UNIFIL outreach peacekeepers from the Mission’s Military Community Outreach Unit (MCOU) organized an event in a public school in Aita ash-Shaab, south-western Lebanon, for children with disabilities earlier this month. The “infotainment” event, organized by UNIFIL MCOU’s Indonesian and Italian…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 21January the appointment of Lieutenant General Daniel Sidiki Traoré of Burkina Faso as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Lieutenant…

Representatives from the Guit and Rubkona communities in Unity discuss how to prevent intercommunal conflicts related to cattle migration and scarce resources. Cattle herders, traditional chiefs, representatives of youths and women, peace coordinators and church leaders from the Guit and Rubkona…

Vera Ayensu, a UN police officer from Ghana, instructs her colleagues in Wau. “I am highly honored to acquire the big [UN] family’s medal. It means that we are the best police officers of our country.” Vera Ayensu, a Deputy Superintendent of the Ghanaian police service, has reasons to be proud, not…

On 23 January, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) and Head of UNMIK, Mr. Zahir Tanin, visited Ferizaj/ Uroševac Municipality and met with Mayor Agim Aliu and associates from his municipal departments. The SRSG was accompanied by the Deputy SRSG, Mr. Christopher Coleman, and…

Zalingei/Khartoum, 23 January 2020- “This emerging trend of harassment of UN and NGO staff and subsequent looting and vandalization of UN and NGO premises and assets is not only very disturbing but totally uncalled for. UN and NGO staff are in Darfur to provide critical humanitarian and peacekeeping…

On 23 January 2020, in Kaga Bandoro, the Bangladesh Level II Hospital launched an 8-weeks training on First Aid and Basic Life Support program to Central Africa Army (FACA) members deployed in Sector Center, to provide them with health skills, for them to be able to take care of themselves and the…

Briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mr. David Shearer at the 23 January 2020 board meeting of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC). Briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mr. David Shearer RJMEC 23 January 2020…

Just like much of UNIFIL troops of 45 nationalities, the UN Mission’s peacekeepers from Nepal conduct daily foot patrols that are critical in maintaining stability in south Lebanon. Observing, monitoring and reporting the security situation on the ground, UNIFIL Nepalese peacekeepers conduct mixed…

Photo by Amin Ismail, UNAMID. In accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2495 (2019), which mandated UNAMID to support the peace process, the Mission is providing logistical support to the Peace Commission, Transitional Government of Sudan, and Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) Darfur Track…

Citizens of Akon County gathered to learn more about the content of the revitalised peace agreement. About a thousand citizens of Akon County in the Gogrial area have participated in a peace rally centered around the dissemination of the content of the revitalised peace agreement signed in September…