Peacekeeping news

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…

12 January 2018, Monrovia - UNMIL handed over items and equipment to the Liberia National Police (LNP) and the Liberia Immigration Services (LIS) through an Integrated Border Management (IBM) project and the Community…

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…

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…

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…

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…

For Samuel James Ayot, a villager from Akoka in rural north South Sudan, accessing basic services and earning a livelihood does not mean having to make a perilous neck-deep wade across a river, thanks to the tireless efforts…

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…

UN peacekeepers have rebuilt the Akoka Bridge in the Upper Nile region, making it possible for local communities to reach Malakal with ease. Some 2,000 residents of the township of Akoka are jubilant: Indian peacekeepers…

Photo by Amin Ismail, UNAMID. EL FASHER – The demobilization of some 500 ex-combatants -- part of ongoing efforts supported by UNAMID and partners to reintegrate former combatants into the community -- concluded on 10 January…

The security situation in West Africa and the Sahel remains of grave concern, the United Nations envoy for the region said Thursday, warning that while there had been progress on the political front over the past year, there…

The top United Nations envoy for Somalia has called for calm and dialogue amid reports of clashes between security forces from ‘Somaliland’ and neighbouring Puntland. “Our position is to try and reduce tensions [and] to…