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A festive mood hung in the air in the courtyard of Bangui’s 4th district town hall long before the dignitaries started to arrive. Celebratory music blared out from speakers. The early arrivals – women both old and young – did…

U.S. Embassy Cyprus, the Technical Committee on the Environment, and the United Nations in Cyprus (UNFICYP and OSASG-Cyprus) are extending and expanding the Youth Photo Contest in honor of World Water Day. The contest will…

Participants at a gender forum in Aweil did not forget to wash their hands. Photos: Emmanuel Kele/UNMISS “We do urge the government to give opportunities to women to lead the country. Women should take positions at all levels…

The UNMISS Annual Brief on Violence Affecting Civilians raises particular concern about a sharp spike in abductions by more than 300 percent. In the photo, abducted children are being released. 31 March 2021: Community-based…

UN peacekeepers in Kapoeta North County having preparatory talks with two feuding communities ahead of a planned peace dialogue. Photos: Moses Yakudu “We have lost too many women and children in this new bout of violence…

UNIFIL peacekeepers operating in south-western Lebanon recently launched the “Together Against COVID” campaign as a way of streamlining ongoing UNIFIL support to the host communities in their common fight against the COVID-19…

As the world marks the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action on 04 April 2021, UNIFIL peacekeepers continue to carry on with the painstaking but necessary work of clearing large swathes of south…

UNIFIL welcomes a recent Lebanese Military Court verdict that has brought another individual guilty of an attack on peacekeepers to justice. In July 2011, a UNIFIL convoy passing through the city of Saida was targeted with an…

Archive photo. Abducted women and children in Jonglei State meet their families again. Fifty-eight women and children who were abducted last year during vicious intercommunal fighting in Jonglei State in South Sudan are…