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With the promise of youth in the limelight as the 2021 International Youth Day is celebrated around the world, the MINUSCA Force organized an Open Day for young people – to help sow the seeds of peacekeeping, to help inspire…
This act of commitment was enthusiastically welcomed by the youth structures of the localities concerned. Photo MONUSCO/Sado Bahemuka MONUSCO has facilitated reconciliation between two communities in Irumu territory in Ituri…
As the seventh largest contributor of troops to UN peacekeeping operations at present, the Arab Republic of Egypt certainly pulls its weight in working to contribute to global peace. In the Central African Republic (CAR), 990…
More than 30,000 people in and around Tambura are thought to have been displaced by violence. UNMISS has visited them, looking into reports of grave human rights violations. Photos: Denis Louro Oliver/UNMISS “They cut my ear…
SRSG Elizabeth Spehar with the Youth Champions for Environment and Peace. September 2020 Photo: UNFICYP/Maria Homolyova Young people are on the frontlines of the struggle to build a better future for all. The COVID-19…
Juba, 11 August 2021: The United Nations Mission in South Sudan is concerned at the division that has developed within the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition (SPLM/A-IO), and which led to clashes between…
A young peace campaigner from Cameroon who turned his back on the violence prevalent in his hometown and became a youth civil society activist, has been telling the United Nations about how he is helping other young people to…
The population and local authorities are now waiting for the benefits of these projects in this area torn by various inter-ethnic conflicts exacerbated by the activism of armed groups. Photo MONUSCO / Miriam Izquierdo In…
Peacekeepers from UNMISS are continuing to patrol across Western Equatoria to ensure that tensions remain low and the recent upsurge of armed attacks in the greater Tambura region does not spread to other areas. Photo by…
Some 200 patients in Wau benefited from a free eye treatment clinic run by UNMISS peacekeepers from Bangladesh. Photo by Jimmy Ludanga/UNMISS. Francis Bangi, a veterinarian in Wau, South Sudan, has suffered from poor eyesight…
At the Lipjan/Lipljan Correctional Center for Women and Juveniles, women these days are busy at work measuring ingredients, monitoring ovens, and testing out their new equipment. What might seem like an ordinary bakery…
UNPOL officers in Aweil recently facilitated a road safety training for some 25 motorcycle taxi or boda boda drivers. Photo by Emmanuel Kele/UNMISS. 25 boda boda (motorcycle taxi) operators in Aweil town of Northern Bahr-el…