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UNMISS PoC sites Update No.225 - 8 January 2019 UNMISS PoC sites Update No.225
GENEVA (7 January 2019) - A United Nations expert has called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to restore internet services in the country. General elections were held on 30 December and the next day all…
More than a thousand families fled Motti due to violence which erupted in 2016. Improved security makes them dream of returning home. The people of Motti, a village in Eastern Equatoria, have been through a few dark years…
Peace, reconciliation and the safe return of the displaced were all high on the wish-lists of end-of-year holiday revellers in Bor. “Our 2019 should begin with a new page of love for one another. I know, it is not easy to…
In an end of year visit, Lebanon’s Caretaker Minister of Defence, Yaacoub Sarraf, led a delegation today to the UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura and the Mission’s area of operation in south Lebanon to extend a word of thanks to…
Last year, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued “a red alert” over a range of dangers confronting the world, which “still persist” as 2019 looms: “These are anxious times for many, and our world is…
High-level military officers representing the two main parties of the peace agreement have held a trust-building meeting in Pajok, Eastern Equatoria. Confidence and trust-building, the bedrock for the implementation of the…
Peacekeepers in Torit spent part of their spare Christmas time visiting children staying at two different orphanages. Peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan spent part of their spare Christmas…
Clearing land from landmines and other potentially explosive objects is a painstakingly slow and risky process. UNMAS has just made an area outside Bor safe again. The United Nations Mine Action Service has discovered and…
On 26 and 27 December, in the course of the ongoing investigation into the presence of tunnels along the Blue Line, UNIFIL together with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) surveyed the premises of an old concrete factory in the…