UNMISS blue helmet keeps watch at mission base in Bentiu
UNMISS peacekeeper looking through binoculars as he keeps watch at the gate leading into mission’s base in Unity State capital Bentiu, where over 47,000 internally displaced people are seeking shelter. Photo: UNMISS / JC McIlwaine
SRSG Løj meets Foreign Affairs Minister
3 September 2014 - The South Sudanese government is ready to cooperate with the newly arrived top UNMISS official “in all friendliness and in harmony”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin said in Juba today. Dr. Benjamin made the remarks following a meeting with the Special…
South Sudan ratifies CEDAW convention
3 September 2014 - South Sudan’s National Legislative Assembly today ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The convention, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979, defines what constitutes discrimination against women, and commits…
Dutch minister visits Malakal protection site
3 September 2014 - The Netherlands government is committed to assisting internally displaced persons (IDPs) in South Sudan, the country’s Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation said in the Upper Nile State capital Malakal today. Lilinne Ploumen made the remarks during a one-day…
Initial probe indicates UNMISS helicopter was shot down
Juba, 9 September 2014 - For the past two weeks, UNMISS has been conducting preliminary investigations into the circumstances surrounding the crash of a United Nations Mi-8 helicopter Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan’s Unity State, on 26 August, which killed three Russian crewmen and injured a…
UNMISS hands over market stalls in Mapel
5 September 2014 - Assisting former soldiers to re-enter civilian life, UNMISS today handed over 18 market stalls to the payam (district) administrator in Mapel, Western Bahr El-Ghazal State. The stalls are part of a mission Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) project to help ex…
Children still gravely threatened by conflict, Security Council told
8 September 2014 - Instability and rising tensions in various countries, including South Sudan, continued to pose a grave threat to children, a senior UN official told the Security Council in New York today.Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui was speaking six…
International Literacy Day
Children attending International Literacy Day festivities at displaced persons site in Juba on 8 September. Photo: UNMISS/JC Mclwaine
Taskforce formed to prevent rape and abuse in Western Equatoria
10 September 2014 - With high incidences of rape and sexual abuse in Western Equatoria, the state government and partners formed a taskforce today in the capital Yambio to launch a campaign on preventing such practices. The campaign by the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare in coordination…
Tightening security, Nepalese fence Rumbek Secondary School
11 September 2014 - To boost security and thwart interruptions to classes, the UNMISS Nepalese Battalion began today to erect a fence around Rumbek Secondary School. Deputy Head Teacher for Academic and Students Affairs Adongkena Kenneth said the fence, which runs about 800 metres, should reduce the…
Malakal women learn effects of domestic violence and abortion
12 September 2014 - In an effort to curb increasing instances of domestic violence and abortion in the Protection of Civilian (PoC) site in Malakal, UNMISS conducted a one-day forum there for women. The aim of the forum was to raise awareness about the effects of domestic violence and abortion.…
SRSG visits Bentiu
Armed Personnel Carrier being loaded onto Mi27 cargo helicopter in Bentiu, Unity State, for transport south to Nasir to assist in protecting civilians. Photo: UNMISS/Julio Brathwaite