News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Female officers in Torit feel empowered and ready for leadership roles after lots of training workshops. Female officers of the organized forces in Torit are benefitting from the rapid empowerment through weekly capacity building workshops enhancing their professional standards. Last week’s main…

8 March 2020 - UN Mission women joined their peers of the local community in Bria (East) to celebrate the International Women Day. A great march went from the local hospital to the townhall, under songs promoting peace in the world in general, and particularly in the Central African Republic. A real…

DRC: Women gaining access to senior positions locally thanks to MONUSCO-backed stabilization project. In the Ruzizi plain, South Kivu province, a hundred women and young people have benefited, for two and a half years, from a project intended to restore social cohesion between communities in…

Khartoum, 09 March 2020- The United Nations - African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) expresses deep regret at the attempted assassination of Dr. Abdalla Hamdok, Sudan’s Prime Minister. UNAMID’s Joint Special Representative (JSR) Jeremiah Mamabolo said “we are both deeply shocked and saddened by…

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Mr. Zahir Tanin, met Ambassador Kai Sauer, the Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Security Policy, from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, at UNMIK Headquarters on 9 March 2020. SRSG Tanin and Mr. Sauer discussed the…

A team of UNIFIL’s Italian and Malaysian peacekeepers partnered with a local youth group recently in organizing an intense month-long educational therapy treatment programme for children with learning disabilities in the Al Bassma Center in the village of Qana in south-western Lebanon. Composed of…

Women in Jonglei are vying for more political representation in the next state government and in leadership roles in general. Women in Jonglei are determined to get 35 per cent political representation when a new state government is established, following the dissolution of the local governing…

UNMISS chief David Shearer answered numerous questions at a press conference in Juba on 9 March. (Scroll down for Q&A session) I want to start by acknowledging the breaking news coming out of Khartoum where an explosion has reportedly hit a convoy carrying Prime Minister Hamdok. I don’t have any…

Women in Lakes are keen on educational opportunities to make the most of their upcoming 35 per cent political representation. Women in Lakes State have called on parties to the revitalized peace agreement to fully respect and uphold the 35 percent of political representation for women, as stipulated…

Major Jarin Sultana: " I am proud to have served under the UN flag in the DR Congo" After 12 months of good and loyal services in the cause of peace and women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Major Jarin Sultana from the Bangladeshi peacekeepers’ contingent serving within MONUSCO, has left the…

Positive developments in South Sudan have “moved the country further along the road to sustainable peace”, the top UN official there told Security Council members on Wednesday. The world’s youngest nation has been mired in instability and conflict for nearly all the eight years since it gained…

Women in uniform in the Central African Republic (CAR) are counting on a newly launched Defence Forces Official Directory of Female Competencies to help push for better representation of women in decision-making positions. The document, produced with MINUSCA support, was handed over to Prime…