News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

(Scroll down for audio version) The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan, David Shearer has urged the South Sudanese government to investigate and apprehend the killers of six aid workers on Saturday. The staff from a national non-governmental organization…

Ghanaian peacekeeping troops (GHANBATT) serving under the UN Mission in South Sudan are providing desperately needed medical services to the local population in Leer County in Southern Unity state. Health facilities in the region have been subject to looting during the on-going conflict. In addition…

Swift, well-coordinated actions by different components of UNMISS saw two separate outbreaks of fire in the Bentiu protection of civilians site being taken care of without any resulting deaths or injuries. The fires, occurring over the weekend, destroyed a total of 117 shelters. “The coordination…

Seven-year-old Nancy does not know it yet, but in five or six years’ time she will have to give up her home life and become the property of a family she has never met, all because her mother committed a crime. Two years ago, the mother got into an argument with another woman in Torit Town in Imatong…

A convoy of protection forces from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), together with members of the Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring Mechanism (CTSAMM) has visited the location where six aid workers were killed on Saturday 25 March, approximately 53 kilometres…

The authorities in Gogrial have been praised by the most senior UN official in South Sudan for closing seven road blocks in the state, a move which has facilitated both trade and enabled humanitarian access. David Shearer, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in South Sudan, visited the…

The ongoing conflict in South Sudan is affecting food security in some of the country’s more “stable states,” the head of UN peacekeeping in South Sudan, UNMISS, has said. David Shearer, the UN’s most senior official in the country, was speaking during a visit to Aweil in the north of South Sudan.…

The dangers posed by remnants of war to the children of South Sudan, has prompted the United Nations Mine Actions Service - UNMAS to develop specifically targeted Mine risk education interventions. “The problem is quite significant, many years of conflict have left many remnants of war, unexploded…

The ongoing conflict in South Sudan is affecting food security in some of the country’s more “stable states,” the head of UN peacekeeping in South Sudan, UNMISS, has said. David Shearer, the UN’s most senior official in the country, was speaking during a visit to Aweil in the north of South Sudan.…

An integrated patrol unit of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan – UNMISS has concluded a three - day long duration patrol to Mapuordit, located approximately 76 km from Rumbek, the provincial capital of Lakes in Southern Sudan. Long duration patrols carried out by the mission are designed to…

UNMISS “Protection of Civilians” (PoC) Sites [i]  As of 30 March 2017, a total of number of civilians seeking safety in six Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites located on UNMISS bases is 214,979 including 117,654 in Bentiu, 30,559 in Malakal, 38,833 in Juba UN House, 1,956 in Bor, 651 in Melut and…

(Scroll down for French version) In today’s world, conflicts are multiplying and increasingly interlinked. Most disturbingly, many warring parties shamelessly target civilians and show a flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law. Improvised explosive devices are killing and injuring…