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Two firsts: First time in South Sudan and flying the first-ever Vietnamese to peacekeeping
Flight Lieutenant Conor O’Neill from the Australian Defense Force At the age of five or six, he knew he wanted to be a pilot. He is now 30 - and flies a monstrous craft in those hard-to-go-to places. As his plane touched-down…
MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD - 11 October 2018
The Secretary-General Today, 600 million adolescent girls are preparing to enter a world of work transformed by innovation and automation. They are the largest generation in history and a vast source of ideas and solutions…
Two firsts: First time in South Sudan and flying the first-ever Vietnamese contingent to peacekeeping
Flight Lieutenant Conor O’Neill from the Australian Defense Force At the age of five or six, he knew he wanted to be a pilot. He is now 30, and flies a monstrous craft in those hard-to-go-to places. As his plane touched-down…
UNAMID hands over two sites in Darfur to the Government of Sudan
Photo by Mutaz Munafal, UNAMID. United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2429 (2018) has called for the closing of ten Team Sites across Darfur as part of the Mission’s reconfiguration process. The Mission intends…
UNMISS police officers celebrate International Day of the Girl Child at school in Juba
If school backpacks can transmit as much knowledge to their owners as they seem able to hold to their owners, the 252 girls and boys at Queen’s Nursery and Primary School next to UN House in Juba, some only marginally bigger…
A day in the life of Aben: International Day of the Girl Child in Malakal
When we first walk into the compound, sixteen-year-old Aben Kon Guon is seated next to a basin of soapy water washing a bright yellow shirt. Across from her on a metal bed with nylon strings forming a firm base, her mother…
DR Congo: Electoral process advancing despite threat of armed groups, Head of MONUSCO tells Security Council
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been providing assistance to the election process. Here, in March 2017, a generator is unloaded from a UN helicopter in Popokabaka in the south-west of…
UNIFIL locates missing boat between Cyprus and Lebanon, 32 are rescued
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Maritime Task Force (MTF) participated in a search and rescue operation at sea after receiving reports on Wednesday 10 October of a missing boat off the coast of Lebanon…
