News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

The UNMISS Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Eugene Owusu, and the OIC UNDP Country Director, concluded a one day visit to Bentiu to assess the prevailing humanitarian situation and to chart the way forward for the remaining challenges for the sustainable and dignified…

While the world eagerly awaits the start of the Olympics later this year, for the children at Bor Girls’ school, there is a much more exciting sporting activity: the first girls’ football class in Bor. While to many, the comparison between the two events seems unusual, it is the key Olympic values…

With support from the Rural Community Action for Peace and Development (RUCAPD) Organization IDP’s in Malakal have started small scale farming for domestic consumption in safe buffer zones. Following the unrest in the PoC site earlier this year, the UNMISS in Malakal has drawn plans of increased…

To empower IDP’s on gender issues and concepts, the UNMISS Gender Unit, in conjunction with other sections of the mission, organized a two day training in the Malakal PoC site. The training was attended by fifty participants from sectors three and four. They will learn about gender mainstreaming…

UNMISS and UN agencies celebrated the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers in the Malakal PoC site, under the theme “Honoring our Heroes”. The program began with a unified UNMISS Peacekeepers parade comprised of Rwandan, Ethiopian and Indian troops serving in Malakal, as well as…

Children in the PoC site in Malakal today celebrated the ‘Day of the African Child’, this years the theme is “Conflict and crisis in Africa: Protecting all Children’s Rights.” In an exclusive interview recorded live on the mission’s Miraya radio station the children voiced their concerns on the…

Mongolian Peacekeepers (MONBATT) carried out a renovation project of Pariang “A” Primary School which included a bloc with two classrooms and teachers’ room. Renovation works were done to the wall, roofing, ceiling, flooring, windows and doors of the block. MONBATT also constructed a new toilet with…

In a colourful event, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan officially handed over a fish market, one of the mission’s 2015/2016 Quick Impact Project’s (QIP’s) benefiting the country. The guest of honor, Philip Aguer, declared the market open and operational. In his statement after cutting the…

To foster a better understanding of the mission’s role in the protection of civilian’s the UNMISS RRP section in Malakal in partnership with the Humanitarian Development Consortium (HDC), Internews, and the South Sudan Development Agency (SSUDA), handed over one hundred wheel chairs and one hundred…

In order to rebuild confidence between the internally displaced persons and the UNMISS, the Head of Field Office, Military contingents, and UNPOL representatives with support from USAID/VISTAS, organized a three day conference. The event involved over 300 participants from various POC committees…

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan and its partners today celebrated the first ‘International Day on the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict’, in Juba. Speaking during the occasion, the UNMISS Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Eugene Owusu, said that the 2013…

45 SPLA officers took part in a training worship aimed at sensitizing them against the recruitment of children in their ranks. The UNMISS Child Protection Unit organized the two- day workshop for the SPLA officers from Divisions Three and Five so that the messaging use of the recruitment, training…