News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Recently displaced by fighting in the mountainous mining areas of Lobonok, civilians are appealing for humanitarian assistance as relative calm returns to the county, located a strenuous three-hour drive from the South Sudanese capital, Juba. Women and men have been speaking about their displacement…

UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 243 - 29 July 2019

Women of the Bongo tribe in the Aguka district of Tonj County have been craving a marketplace for years and their wishes have been granted. Thanks to a series of construction projects, they now have a brand new building to accommodate one. At the inaugural ceremony of the building, financed by the…

A Malual Dinka and Misseriya post-migration peace conference has concluded in Wanyjok town in Aweil East with a proposal to convene a tri-state conference between Aweil East, Twic and Northern Liech to follow up on cases of cattle raids and compensations. “Our recommendations are very clear,” says…

For several weeks, thousands of Mundari people – mostly women and children – have been surviving at Awerial Centre, located in the Eastern Lakes area, on nothing but wild leaves for food. Having borne a seven-year drought, the Mundari people who hail from Tali and Tindolo areas say the situation has…

Government and opposition authorities in Northern Liech have agreed to form a joint force to improve security along major roads, following appeals from participants at a recently concluded peace dialogue. At the peace forum, participants demanded an end to criminality in the Northern Liech area…

The sounds of up to fifteen thousand people rejoicing filled Malakal this Sunday as ordinary citizens and functionaries from across South Sudan gathered to bear witness to the consecration of a new bishop for the Upper Nile region. Following a ten-year vacuum in the diocese’s leadership, Dr. Stephen…

For 15 years now, Captain Yor Oraj has been sailing different boats and barges along the lengths, depths and breadths of the world’s longest river, the Nile, delivering much needed supplies for operations and troops, either northwards or southwards. Getting essential supplies to their destination…

After three difficult years living in a refugee camp in Uganda, Rachele Mindraa has made the decision to return to her native village of Anzara in the Eastern Equatorian region of South Sudan. Sitting under a tamarind tree in her ancestral homeland of Nimule, Rachele described the challenges she…

Funding from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has made the construction of a brand-new prison possible in Chukudum town, near Kapoeta, in Eastern Equatoria. The prison, with capacity to hold two hundred inmates among four cells, will cater to male, female, and juvenile offenders, and…

Seeking shelter from the sweltering sun under the branches of a huge tree, local chiefs pull away from the crowds of people to form a small inner circle, holding hands to signal their commitment to ending six years of intercommunal conflict. The ceremony to celebrate a new peace agreement, signed by…

A vandalized veterinary hospital in Malakal has been given a comprehensive makeover by Indian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Local farmers had approached peacekeepers asking for support because of the dire shortage of veterinary services in the Upper Nile region…