Peacekeeping News

The United Nation’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, visibly touched as she met children in Yambio, engaged in vocational trainings after having been released…

Photo by Muntasir Sharafadin, UNAMID. On 4 September 2018, UNAMID concluded a three-day workshop on Promotion of Good Governance at the University of El Geneina, West Darfur. Some 40 officials, including nine women, attended…

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has applauded the verdict by a military court on Thursday, that found ten government soldiers guilty of murder, rape and other crimes against civilians and journalists at a…

Since taking the helm last month, UNIFIL’s Head of Mission and Force Commander, Major General Stefano Del Col, today chaired his first tripartite meeting with senior delegations from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the…

The finding of a military court that 10 soldiers were guilty of committing violence against civilians at the Terrain Hotel in Juba, South Sudan, has finally delivered justice for the survivors and the family of the journalist…

Carpentry, brick laying, perhaps a spot of hairdressing. Or why not give connecting electrical or solar-powered devices a crack? Back in April, such a veritable vocational training smorgasbord was up for grabs for 115 young…

UNIFIL’s Indian peacekeepers helped the residents of Shab’a village, south-eastern Lebanon, avert a major damage by a raging bushfire yesterday. Villagers sought the assistance of the UNIFIL peacekeepers after failing to…

Mangateen, relatively near central Juba. A makeshift camp for some 3,500 recently and voluntarily relocated displaced persons. We are standing outside a huge warehouse made to look small by the hundreds and hundreds of people…

Almost 3500 internally displaced people have been successfully relocated from the UN Protection of Civilians site in Juba to a new site within the community in a joint effort between the United Nations Mission in South Sudan…

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col met today with Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander, General Joseph Aoun, at the UN Peacekeepers’ Headquarters in south Lebanon to discuss operational…

In a bid to improve their living conditions, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has donated sleeping mats and dignity kits to more than sixty inmates held at Bentiu central prison. “I am sure in the coming few days, we…