News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

On 2 February 2021, Lieutenant-General Shailesh Tinaikar, UNMISS Force Commander, visited Bunj, Upper Nile state, to assess the security and humanitarian conditions on the ground, following the mission's ongoing efforts to restore calm and stability in the wake of sporadic intercommunal violence…

UN Photo/Lieutenant Léa Fournel - UNIFIL Force Commander's Reserve UNIFIL Sector East peacekeepers, led by the Kingdom of Spain, last week hosted counterparts from France and Finland in their area of responsibility in south-eastern Lebanon in a regular exercise to test technical interoperability of…

03 February; UNAMID’s Team Site in Kutum Locality, North Darfur was officially handed over to the North Darfur State Government (NDSG). The handover is part of the Mission’s drawdown plan in line with the UN Security Council Resolution 2559 (2020) which terminated UNAMIDs mandate as of 31 December…

UNIFIL Italian Contingent donated three innovative laryngoscopy video systems to the public hospitals of Bint Jbeil and Tibnin and to the municipality of Tyre. (UN Photo/Sergeant Marina Dore) With a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country recently, UNIFIL peacekeepers have ramped up…

UNIFIL Italian Contingent donated three innovative laryngoscopy video systems to the public hospitals of Bint Jbeil and Tibnin and to the municipality of Tyre. (UN Photo/Sergeant Marina Dore) With a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country recently, UNIFIL peacekeepers have ramped up…

Proactive and agile responses by UNMISS peacekeepers to a recent upsurge in sub-national violence and the need to pick up pace in implementing the 2018 Peace Agreement were key issues addressed by David Shearer, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative in South Sudan, at a press conference in…

Some 20 UN peacekeepers serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, were injured on Wednesday, after their temporary base came under attack in the restive central region of the country. In a statement, MINUSMA said that the ‘blue helmets’ under fire were able to repel the attackers…

Cattle herders from South Sudan and Sudan celebrate the signing of an agreement to make the cattle migration season as peaceful as possible. Early every year, the nomadic people of Misseriya in Sudan and their herds of cattle make the long journey south to Aweil East County in South Sudan. They come…

A high-level delegation led by UNMISS Deputy Special Representative-Humanitarian, Alain Noudehou, during a recent visit to flood-affected Bor and Panyagor, Jonglei state. “We are here because we want to see the situation on the ground for ourselves and understand what we can do to alleviate the…

For nearly a month, the MINUSCA Conduct and Discipline (CDT) team has crisscrossed several neighborhoods of Bangui – meeting with university and high schools students, a musicians’ group, human rights, civil society, youth and women’s associations, motorcycle cab drivers, gender-based violence…

Sometimes, vehicles will only take you so far. UNMISS peacekeepers patrolling a conflict-prone area in Eastern Equatoria State. Patrolling peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan have confirmed recent reports of conflict, displacements, loss of lives and human suffering…

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack perpetrated on 10 February 2021 against MINUSMA near Douentza, which resulted in one peacekeeper from Togo killed and twenty-seven peacekeepers injured. The members of the Security Council expressed their deepest…