UNAMID and Sudan Police Forces Commence Joint Patrols in Central Darfur
Photo by Amin Ismail, UNAMID. Zalingei-23 September; “For the first time in Darfur’s almost 17-year conflict, successful joint patrols are being conducted by the Sudan Police Force (SPF) and UNAMID Police in farming areas and will be extended shortly to Camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs)…
Civil society network in Eastern Equatoria to coordinate activities for more effective service delivery
Civil society representatives in Eastern Equatoria State gathered to better coordinate their activities and service delivery. The Civil Society Network in Eastern Equatoria State is developing new strategies to secure additional funding and improve collaboration with state authorities. Their goal…
UNMISS donates motorbikes to South Sudan national police services
This motorbike, still wrapped in plastic, and nine others will help police in Jonglei do a better job. The South Sudan National Police Services in Greater Jonglei have received ten motorbikes from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan to improve their mobility and hence ability to protect…
UNMISS hands over motorbikes to South Sudan national police services
This motorbike, still wrapped in plastic, and nine others will help police in Jonglei do a better job. The South Sudan National Police Services in Greater Jonglei have received ten motorbikes from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan to improve their mobility and hence ability to protect…
UN Protection of Civilians site in Bor becomes a conventional camp for displaced people
Some seven years after the outbreak of civil war in 2013, the Protection of Civilians site in Bor, South Sudan, has been re-designated as a conventional camp for Internally Displaced Persons. When fierce fighting broke out in Bor in 2013, Diu Billiu Majok and his family ran for their lives to the…
Sector East HQs organize training on public information
UNIFIL’s Sector East Headquarters organized a training on public information, encompassing various aspects of news production as well as media relations, for UNIFIL and Lebanese Army troops in its base in Ibil al-Saqi last week. The three-day training, from 15 to 17 September 2020, saw participation…
'Silence the guns' in the CAR
It was with a rallying cry to ‘silence the guns’ that the project for the “Voluntary surrender of weapons and ammunition held by the population” was officially launched in the Central African Republic (CAR) by Head of State Faustin Archange Toudera on Friday, 25 September 2020 at the Martyrs Avenue…
SRSG Tanin welcomes Assembly’s vote on Istanbul Convention
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK Zahir Tanin welcomed Kosovo Assembly’s vote to incorporate the provisions of the Istanbul Convention, also known as the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, into…
UNIFIL deploys to Beirut to assist LAF in the aftermath of Port explosions
In coordination with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today deployed a detachment of multinational force to Beirut in order to assist Lebanese authorities with their efforts to deal with the aftermath of the tragic 4 August explosions. The…
Lending a hand to education in Kaga Bandoro
With schools once again opening their doors to students in the Central African Republic (CAR) following a months-long hiatus brough on by the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), MINUSCA peacekeepers brought some cheer to the pupils of Bamou Primary School in Kaga Bandoro (northern CAR) during a recent…
A new metal bridge opens up a world of possibilities in Bocaranga
There is a new addition to the landscape of Bocaranga town in the Ouham-Pende prefecture in the north of the Central African Republic: a new metal bridge constructed by the MINUSCA Peruvian Engineering Contingent is improving accessibility and day-to-day life for the townspeople and the wider local…
UNMISS completes emergency repair of crucial road in Bor town
UNMISS engineers doing what they do best: repairing an important road, this time in flood-stricken Bor. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has completed emergency road repair work between the Bor Airport and the Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology. The South Korean…