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Peacekeeping is 70 years old! This year, we celebrated our 70th birthday. Over the past 7 decades, more than one million men and women have served proudly under the UN flag in more than 70 UN peacekeeping operations. Today…
Women belonging to various ethnic groups got together in Bor for a workshop on the importance of national identity. “We were all in the bush together. We all fought for the liberation and independence of South Sudan. We are…
Hundreds of women, young and old, gather and line up at a food distribution center, opposite Bentiu town’s main mosque. They are from Nhialdiu, and have walked anywhere between 30 and 40 kilometers to get to this food…
A suspect is led into the new Bentiu Mobile Court by Ghanaian police peacekeepers Arriving at a partly run-down building just after 8 a.m. with files in hand, Bentiu’s new mobile High Court officials immediately settle down…
On Friday 14 December, three young boys, released after having been abducted in 2017, arrived in Juba on board an UNMISS helicopter. The next step is to find their families. Every big journey starts with a small step. The…
At UN News, 2018 kicked off with UNICEF’s “challenge” to all nations to make sure more newborns survive their first days of life by ensuring they are protected from treatable diseases as well as having access to proven, low…
A year on from the brutal killings of 15 United Nations peacekeepers from Tanzania in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the head of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) paid a visit to some of the victims’ families on…
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, notes the adoption of three laws by the Assembly of Kosovo that initiate substantial changes to the role and responsibilities of the Kosovo…
Thirty-two-year-old Nyakong Nyal Deng slowly steps back and looks away as she covers her face. Her fingers gently sweep over her eyes. She is hiding away her tears. As she narrates the cause of a now-healed scar on her right…
Emmanuel Kembe, VIP, Kawaja Revolution – all on one stage! The unusual artistic trinity came to life in Malakal early this week, as they fired up a boisterous crowd at a peace concert fittingly called Malakal United. “…
