A team of peacekeepers serving with UNMISS arrived in Romich village on an air patrol to assess the security situation after several previous attempts to get there by road were thwarted by heavy flooding.This is the scene that greeted them a week after heavy fighting broke out between members of the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces and armed youth.
UNMISS conducts air patrol to investigate recent clashes and support reconciliation in Romich
An injured young man lies on out in the open on a dirty mattress. The inside of a medical clinic has been torched. Guns rest against the wall of a nearby building and damaged armoured tanks lie abandoned in flooded fields…
At a recent consultative meeting in Kapoeta, women's representatives, human rights defenders and local authorities stressed on the need for a women's shelter to protect girls and young women who are survivors of sexual- and gender-based violence.
Women in Kapoeta lobby for a shelter to protect survivors of sexual- and gender-based violence
At a recent consultative meeting held by UNMISS Gender and Human Rights sections in Kapoeta, Eastern Equatoria, to identify projects of benefit for local communities under the mission’s Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) programme…
Three days of important talks in Juba as committees established to implement an action plan to release children from armed forces.
South Sudan forms committees to oversee implementation of action plan for child-free armed groups
An action plan, no matter how comprehensive its scope, is only as good as its implementation. For this reason, South Sudan has just formed two committees tasked with turning the words of a national action plan to keep…
The intricate links between the rule of law and the COVID-19 pandemic were discussed by participants at a recent forum in Kapoeta, Eastern Equatoria State.
Much-needed face masks and COVID-19 information handed out in busy but non-compliant Kapoeta
Despite the threat of COVID-19, life in Kapoeta in Eastern Equatoria continues pretty much as normal. Traders from the region and next-door Uganda and Kenya mix with soldiers and locals with few face masks or cares in the…
Crucial COVID-19 information and face masks: a lifesaving combo not only in Malakal but also in any other place plagued by the pandemic.
UNMISS donates thousands of face masks to internally displaced people and others in Malakal and Kodok
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has donated several thousands of face masks to internally displaced people staying at the protection of civilian site in Malakal and to citizens in both Kodok and Malakal town. “Today…
UNMISS handing over a vehicle to the COVID-19 task force in Kodok, Upper Nile State.
UNMISS donates ambulance to COVID-19 task force in Kodok, Upper Nile State
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has handed over a vehicle to the COVID-19 task force committee in Kodok in Upper Nile State. It will be used as an ambulance and will facilitate the movement of local health workers.…
Soap, buckets and people wearing masks were all part of the scene as UNMISS donated COVID-19 material to local authorities in Torit.
UNMISS hands over antibacterial soaps and hand washing buckets to support Eastern Equatorian communities
If you find yourself with less than squeaky clean hands in Eastern Equatoria, there may be no better time than now to receive antibacterial soap and possibly also a bucket ideal for hand washing. The United Nations Mission in…
Youth leaders at an UNMISS-organized forum in Yambio discussing how to achieve durable peace in their communities.
Yambio youth leaders want bigger role as peace ambassadors in their communities
Youth leaders from Yambio and beyond have pledged to be ambassadors of peace in their communities. They made their voices heard at a peace forum gathering more than thirty representatives of civil society groups organized by…
Between April and June 2020, the overall number of civilians affected by violence decreased by 8 per cent, despite an increase by more than half (52 per cent) in the number of incidents, as compared with the first quarter of the year. However, COVID-19-related restrictions on movement negatively impacted UNMISS' capacity to thoroughly document all incidents.
Peacekeepers from Ghana use their own funds to equip more than 30 displaced women residing in the UN Protection Site in Bentiu with trading items for starting their own businesses.
UNMISS civilian and military peacekeepers encourage entrepreneurship among displaced women in Bentiu
In a bid to motivate displaced women towards becoming entrepreneurs, UNMISS peacekeepers from Ghana teamed up with civilian staff from the mission’s Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP) section to hand over essential…
On 27 August 2020, UNMISS handed over a courthouse constructed under its Quick Impact Projects programme to authorities in Maper, Northern Bahr el Ghazal. The project was implemented by local partner, Support for Peace, Education and Development Project (SPEDP).
Women, community leaders in Maper welcome handover of a new courthouse funded by UNMISS
“For a long time, all of us living in Maper have been denied access to justice,” said 30-year-old Aguer Mabior. “In the civil war of 2016, many of us lost our homes and valuables; but claiming restitution or assistance seemed…
UNPOL officers deployed to Eastern Equatoria participate in a monthly rule of law forum organised by the United Nations Development Programme in Torit, South Sudan.
UN Police champion human rights for detainees, protection of SGBV survivors at UNDP-organised forum in Eastern Equatoria
United Nations Police (UNPOL) officers deployed in Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan, recently championed human rights reform, including rights protection for survivors of sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV), and detainees…