News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

To support the South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) in its efforts to rebuild confidence and trust, UNMISS Police Commissioner Fred Yiga today visited three police posts in areas identified for voluntary return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Juba. The police posts, located in Khor…

Stepping up their activities in South Sudan, the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF today launched a mass mobilization campaign in Warrap State to screen thousands of children for malnutrition. The efforts followed the recently released Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which…

UNMISS had extracted 18 peacekeepers who were detained by heavily armed men affiliated to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) - In Opposition in Upper Nile State, Mission Spokesperson Ariane Quentier said in Juba today. “However we were very unfortunate and very sad and concerned that the SPLA…

UNMISS recently started long duration patrols to Bentiu town, Unity State to closely assess the security situation and conditions for humanitarians actors to expand their operations. According to the UN Military Sector North Deputy Commander Col. Adarsha Verma, the joint patrols will also give the…

By rehabilitating the airstrip in the Western Equatoria State capital Yambio, UNMISS was enhancing the state government’s ability to deliver services, a senior state official said today. “By upgrading this airstrip, you have enhanced the abilities of the government to render and deliver services to…

The Warrap State Legislative Assembly today pledged to help in accurately informing communities about the role of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Assembly Speaker Madot Dut Deng made the remarks during a one-day awareness and sensitization forum with an integrated UNMISS team…

UNMISS Update No. 94

In Bor – Jonglei, UNMISS RRP organized a two day training workshop on Supporting Peaceful Coexistence of Communities towards Safe and Voluntary Return and Reintegration with Twenty six of the expected thirty participants in attendance, cutting across Ministry officials from Education, Gender, Child…

More than 40 SPLA soldiers are attending a two- day child protection workshop in Bentiu to inform them about the rights of children. The two day workshop is being organized by the UNMISS Child Protection Section. The workshop follows a commitment made by the Government of South Sudan in 2014 to end…

Four rooms of a ward in the Bentiu hospital have been renovated by UN Peacekeepers and handed over to the community. The health facility that was destroyed during the two year conflict was repaired by the UNMISS Mongolian battalion. The senior government authority in Bentiu, John Juoy Yoach…

Internally displaced women and women organizations in Twic State (formerly Twic County, Warrap) said an inclusive anti gender based violence campaign is needed to address the ever increasing plight of women in the state. The call was made during a five-day (May 9-13) gender based violence awareness…

UNMISS Update No.95