UNMISS Formed Police Units and Military Battalions demonstrate riot control techniques
Aiming to maintain law and order in UNMISS protection sites, the Bangladesh Formed Police Unit as well as the Nepalese Battalion and Formed Police Unit demonstrated riot control techniques at an event presided over by UNMISS…
UNMISS conducts patrols in Lakes State
20 January 2014 - Aiming to deter violence against civilians, an integrated UNMISS team recently intensified patrols in high tension areas in Lakes State. The team, comprising of military liaison officers and the Nepalese…
South Sudan’s future depends on its people, Malakal youth and women say
21 January 2015 - Reconciliation was the only way forward in efforts to end ongoing conflict in South Sudan, women and youth residents of Wau Shilluk said today during a village debate in the locality in Malakal County, Upper…
Children in Bentiu immunized against polio
22 January 2015 - Thousands of children under the age of 15 years recently received polio vaccination at the UNMISS protection site in the Unity State capital Bentiu. A total of 27,000 children were immunized during the three…
Displaced youth in Bentiu trained in conflict mitigation
21 January 2015 - More than 20 youth leaders living at the UNMISS protection site in the Unity State capital Bentiu today received training in conflict mitigation and how to reduce the crimes in the protection sites. The…
UN Police officer talks to children in protection site
UN Police officer talking to children in UNMISS protection site in Juba. Photo: UNMISS/Ilya Medvedev
Chinese peacekeepers repairing Warrap State road
22 January 2015 - UNMISS Chinese peacekeepers today started rehabilitating a road leading from the Warrap State capital Kuajok to Turalei in Twic County. To repair the 170km road which is always inaccessible during the rainy…
UN chief welcomes signing of peace deal by opposition factions
23 January 2015 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the Agreement on the Reunification of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed on 21 January by the South Sudanese parties in Arusha, Tanzania. “He…
UNMAS to start clearing roads in Bentiu
UN Mine Action Service bulldozer arriving in Unity State capital Bentiu ahead of exercise to verify and clear roads. Photo: UNMISS/JC McIlwaine
UNMISS trains IDPs’ community watch group
23 January 2015 - To enhance safety mechanisms for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in UNMISS protection sites, UN Police (UNPOL) advisors today completed a training for a community watch group in Juba. The four-day course…
UNMISS conducts roundtable discussions for peace awareness in Lakes State
26 January 2015 - To help prevent inter-communal conflict in Lakes State, UNMISS recently started conducting a series of roundtable dialogues in different areas in the state. The dialogues, organized by the Civil Affairs…
UNMISS condemns killing of civilians in ambush in Western Bahr El Ghazal State
Juba, 27 January 2015 - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) strongly condemns the killing of eleven civilians, five of them journalists, in a roadside ambush while travelling to Raja in Western Bahr El Ghazal…