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Two severely wounded South Sudanese men have received life-saving care from the Sri Lankan medical team serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in Bor. Two severely wounded South Sudanese men have received life…
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col today chaired a special Tripartite meeting – the first since the COVID-19 outbreak – with senior officers from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the…
As part of its ongoing commitment to support local efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, UNMISS handed over some 7,000 face masks, protective glasses, gloves and disinfectants to local hospitals in Torit. Torit in the…
The South Sudanese Government has confirmed that two cases of COVID-19 have been identified inside a Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in the capital, Juba, although the world’s youngest nation has been relatively unscathed…
On 12 May 2020, the Zambian battalion Female Engagement Team (FET) conducted a sensitization workshop on Coronavirus Disease at MINUSCA base in Birao, targeting 19 selected influential local women, because of the need to…
Photo by Owies Elfaki, UNAMID. Zalingei, 12 May 2020- As part of UNAMID response and mitigation measures against the spread of the novel corona virus disease (COVID-19) in Darfur, UNAMID’s Human Rights Section (HRS)…
MONUSCO initiates the creation of Local Protection Committees in Mahagi. Photo MONUSCO In total, around 100 participants (including 30 women) from local authorities, community leaders, civil society, youth and women's…
The Anika Women's Association in Yambio is providing door-to-door awareness-raising sessions and putting up posters with messages from the World Health Organization in public places as well as in front of individual…
UNMISS peacekeepers from Bangladesh are providing basic sewing training to eight local women in Wau to enable them to produce cloth face masks. As COVID-19 continues to cast a shadow across the globe, UNMISS and national…
Ituri: MONUSCO hands over two sites for FRPI disarmament to the government. Photo MOUSCO/Jean Tobie OKALA On Monday, 11 May 2020, Monusco handed over two sites to the provincial government to be used for the disarmament and…
MONUSCO supports local masks-production initiatives against Coronavirus In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women in Beni, North-Kivu province, have come forward as key players in the fight against the spread of the…