Warrap forum discusses rape
21 August 2014 - Recent rape cases that resulted in the deaths of a pregnant woman and an 11-year old girl highlight the need to step up the fight against gender-based violence, participants at a forum in the Warrap State…
UNESCO, Zain train youth in ICT
22 August 2014 - Some 43 South Sudanese youth today completed a two-weeks training course in Juba, aimed at empowering them with skills to develop and promote locally relevant mobile applications. UN Educational, Scientific…
Happy to be alive
Life as an internally displaced person (IDP) can be tough. But Marina Nyan, who is seeking shelter at an UNMISS base in Juba, is happy simply to be alive. For that she thanks UNMISS. “Life in the camp is not as good as it was…
High level delegation decries “inhuman” conditions for IDPs in Bentiu
25 August 2014 - Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) continue to live in dire conditions at the UNMISS base in the Unity State capital Bentiu because of a persistent security threat outside, UN Humanitarian…
UNMISS condemns the detention of IGAD ceasefire monitors in Unity State
Juba, 25 August 2014 – The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) condemns the detention of a team of six Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) ceasefire monitors and three aircrew in Buoth (35 km South West of…
South Sudan leaders sign cessation of hostilities implementation timetable
25 August 2014 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had taken note of today’s signing of an implementation matrix for the 23 January 2014 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, his spokesperson said in New York today. “The…
UNMISS engineers repair key road in Warrap
25 August 2014 - Seeking to assist in repairing roads in and to Warrap State, UNMISS Chinese Engineers recently completed repairs on an eight-kilometre road that leads to the only murram quarry in the state. Road engineers…
UNMISS launches search and rescue mission following helicopter crash in Unity state
Juba, 26 August 2014 – The United Nations Mission in South Sudan confirms that one of its MI-8 helicopters has crashed about 10 km south of Bentiu in Unity State. The Mission lost contact with the helicopter, which was on a…
Three crew dead, one injured in UNMISS helicopter crash in Unity State
Juba, 26 August 2014 - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) confirms that three crew members of a UN-contracted MI-8 helicopter have died in this afternoon’s crash near Bentiu in Unity State.
Three die in UNMISS helicopter crash in Bentiu
26 August 2014 - UNMISS confirms that three crew members died today when one of the mission’s MI-8 helicopters crashed about 10 kilometres south of the Unity State capital Bentiu. The helicopter, which was on a routine cargo…
IDPs in Malakal learn about new UNMISS mandate
27 August 2014 - Internally displaced people (IDPs) seeking shelter at the UNMISS base in the Upper Nile State capital Malakal today said they supported the mission’s new mandate. Participating in a forum organized by UNMISS…
Helicopter crash hostile act against the UN - Lanzer
28 August 2014 - The United Nations was treating the recent helicopter crash near the Unity State capital Bentiu, which left three Russian crew members dead, as the result of a hostile attack, the acting UNMISS Chief said in…