News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

2 March 2017 – The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) received two certificates of appreciation from the University of Juba today as the Mission and local universities in Juba organized the UNMISS Peace Fair along with the opening ceremony for the Inter-University Peace League. During…

“South Sudan’s political leadership needs to support its own citizens, who are in desperate need across the country and cease hostilities,” the United Nations Special Representative to the Secretary-General for South Sudan, David Shearer, said today. United Nations humanitarian agencies declared a…

04 March 2017, South Sudan (UNMISS) -- "We are happy because the United Nations has arrived here to bring us food” said Martha Nyordit, a mother of five in Padeah county of Leer in Unity, one of the areas that has been worst affected by the latest wave of famine. Martha is just one of the Tens of…

06 March 2017, Juba - The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, has said urgent action is needed to avert a possibility of pushing more than one million people on the brink of starvation in South Sudan. He spoke to Radio Miraya, at the…

“The most striking image that we have seen on the ground is the image of desolation, you see abandoned villages, abandoned houses, the markets that are not functioning anymore; to me this was the most striking image, " says Alyona Synenco, ICRC communication delegate in South Sudan of the sitiuation…

08 March 2016 - “As they grow up, girls must be exposed to a broad range of careers,” says UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on International Women’s Day celebrated across the world today. The theme for International Women’s Day 2017 is Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50…

08 March 2017 - A young female South Sudanese is using paint to create vivid images that picture the plight of the elderly women in the South Sudanese communities she grew up in. “If you look at all the wrinkles that she has, it symbolises the time she lived, the wisdom, the knowledge she gained all…

Wau, South Sudan - Girls caught in conflict with the law in Wau will soon no longer have to face the double sentence of sharing prison space with adult inmates, after ground was broken for a female wing at the Wau juvenile detention center. When complete, the ‘Female Juvenile Holding Centre’ is…

08 March 2017 - The United Nations Population Fund – UNFPA, has enhanced its midwifery education program, designed to increase the number of women attended to by qualified health personnel particularly midwives in South Sudan. “Midwives are essential part in South Sudan’s fight against maternal and…

8 th March 2017 – To mark the International Women’s Day, celebrated globally on 8 March, hundreds of women, men and children, internally-displaced persons, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan - UNMISS, and other UN agencies and non-governmental organizations took part in celebrations which…

09 March 2017 - Starving communities in Southern Unity have received a boost of 8,000 fishing kits from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “The distribution in the areas of Mayendit, Leer and Koch will help increase local food production,” said Serge Tissot, FAO representative in South…

09 March 2017 - Communities in Terekeka have adopted a set of resolutions designed to promote reconciliation and peaceful co-existence between four counties of Gwor, Tindilu, Tali and Tijor. This came after a two day reconciliation conference, organized by the Civil Affairs Division Field Office of…