Newly deployed UNMISS peacekeepers arrive in Maper, where recent intercommunal fighting has claimed at least 79 lives and left scores injured. A brief, but telling, conversation unfolded in Maper on Monday between the United…
Seventy-five United Nations peacekeepers have been temporarily re-deployed from Rumbek to Maper to deter further violence between communities in the northern Lakes region of South Sudan. The fresh deployment of Nepalese…
Women were well represented at the neighbourhood advocacy forum for peace in Kapoeta, organized by UNMISS and partners. Trust and confidence has been reinforced between the civilian population and military forces of the Sudan…
Villages devastated by flooding in South Sudan's Akobo The town of Akobo should be bustling with energy. Thousands of families who fled their homes when civil war erupted in South Sudan have finally begun returning to their…
Jubek Model School was the scene of a festive event promoting harmonious families, peace and an end to gender-based violence. On Thursday 28 November, a steaming Juba was joyously shaken by the reverberations of singing and…
A Chinese military delegation comprising the following senior officers: Sr. Col. QU ZHE; Sr. Col. TONG SHENGHAI; Sr. Col. YAN RUI; Col. FU JIANHUI; Col. FANG YI; Col. SHAO FEI; Col. LU PENG; LT.Col. TANG MIN, undertook a…
This young man in Malakal is making great use of an UNMISS-led basic engineering training he completed in May. Six months after its conclusion, a training provided by some of the UN peacekeeping mission’s engineering troops…
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in collaboration with Women Associations of Abyei and Diffra held activities in the two locations to launch the 16-Days of Activism against gender-based violence…
Photo by Hamid Abdulsalam, UNAMID. On 1 December 2019, UNAMID’s HIV/AIDS Unit celebrated World AIDS Day at the Mission headquarters in Zalingei, Central Darfur, under the theme "Communities make the difference". The event…
Bangui, Central African Republic – For over a half century, Mali has answered the United Nations call for peacekeeping in the world. The West-African country has, over the years, actively participated in efforts to prevent…
Focusing on stories of Kosovo women who have survived domestic violence, UNMIK staff came together to mark the global 16 Days of Activism campaign that puts a spotlight on preventing violence against women and girls each year…
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col today inaugurated, together with local authorities, a UNIFIL-supported central heating system project in a primary school in Houla, south-eastern…