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Back from Wau, UN South Sudan envoy says security improved, people returning home
The security situation north-western South Sudan has improved with displaced people returning home, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the African country has said, holding he situation in Wau as a “model”…

Search for success against all odds
Search for success against all odds Two years ago, five women living at the UN Mission in South Sudan Protection of Civilians site in Malakal in the Upper Nile region collected sacks and whatever tools they could find around…

UNMISS Head hails “productive meeting” with South Sudanese President ahead of UN General Assembly in New York
UNMISS Head hails “productive meeting” with South Sudanese President ahead of UN General Assembly in New York A meeting with the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, ahead of the General Debate of the United Nations General…

INTERVIEW: UN should be flagbearer when it comes to gender parity, stresses top official
This week Secretary-General António Guterres launched a new strategy to achieve gender parity across the United Nations – something he described as “an urgent need, a moral duty, an operational necessity – and a personal…

MONUSCO chief condemns deadly clashes involving Burundian asylum-seekers in South-Kivu
MONUSCO chief condemns deadly clashes involving Burundian asylum-seekers in South-Kivu. Photo MONUSCO KINSHASA, Sep. 16, 2017 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…

Use political weight to eliminate sexual exploitation and abuse, UN official urges global leaders
Ahead of a high-level United Nations meeting on preventing sexual exploitation and abuse, the Organization's Special Coordinator on the issue is urging global leaders to join the “Circle of Leadership,” lend the political…

“UN Family” competes in friendly games at the first United Nations South Sudan Sports Day
“UN Family” competes in friendly games at the first United Nations South Sudan Sports Day The grounds in the Bangladesh Battalion camp in the UN Mission in South Sudan compound in Juba were buzzing as hundreds of UN…

Stepping out of the compound—UN Volunteers are bridges to local communities in DRC
Yohann Bouvier (France), UN Youth Volunteer Monitoring and Evaluation Officer with UNICEF (right), and Rory Collins (Ireland), UN Volunteer Software Developer for the UNV Support Office (writing on the board) teach English to…

More than 128 countries back pledged reforms to shape ‘21st century UN’
Pledging to overhaul the United Nations bureaucracy to make the world body stronger and more responsive to the people it serves, Secretary-General António Guterres today launched a pledge of support for reforms that has the…
UNMIL supports the Government of Liberia to convene one-day working session to discuss ways to enhance security sector accountability
On 15 September 2017, UNMIL facilitated one day session held for members of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) and the Liberia National Police (LNP) on the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Ministry of…
