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Ten years on, the United Nations Standing Police Capacity (SPC) continues to bolster peacekeeping operations by providing immediate start-up capability and strengthening police components with timely support, advice and…

Condemning today’s terrorist attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the United Nations mission there called on all parties to the conflict to “strictly adhere” to their obligations under international humanitarian law and to…

Joint statement by the Chairperson of the African Union and the Secretary-General of United Nations on the situation in South Sudan, 12 January 2018. Joint statement of the African Union and the United Nations on the…

The newly established Group of Friends of children in armed conflict would agree that a classroom, not a battle field, is the right place for children to be. (Photo from St. Comboni Secondary School in Juba). The United…

UNMISS and the Inter-State Coordinating Committee organized a forum on cattle migration to reduce tensions between farmers and pastoralists on 10 January 2018. The cattle migration season in South Sudan brings conflicts…

Peacekeepers from UNIFIL’s French-led Force Commander’s Reserve (FCR) installed a new water tank in the public school of the village of Ash Sh’Aytiah (Kneiseh School) in south Lebanon last week. The 60 cubic metre tank will…

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, was shocked by the murder of Oliver Ivanović – leader of the civic initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice – near his office in North…

UN peacekeepers organized fun-day for displaced children in Bentiu Peacekeepers from Ghana have organized a “fun-day” for displaced children in a protection site in Bentiu in northern South Sudan. Various games and a dance…

Voicing serious concern over the continued political impasse and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations Security Council has called upon all political actors to exercise maximum restraint…

UNMISS PoC sites Update No.187