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Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita wrapped up her four-day visit to South Sudan with a press conference in Juba. There is a need for “all South Sudanese stakeholders to engage genuinely and constructively in finding a…

Local residents and Members stand outside the Magistrates Court in Clay Ashland, Montserrado County at its opening ceremony. Photo: Staton Winter | UNMIL | 20 Jul 07 The National Policy on Decentralization and Local…

A Liberian Women’s Peace Group member performs during celebrations for the 10th Anniversary of the peace agreement at the Centennial Pavilion in Monrovia. Photo: Staton Winter | UNMIL | 19 Aug 13 In 2016, the Security Council…

The Government of Liberia has identified national reconciliation as a strategic objective for long- term peace consolidation and economic development. However, 14 years after the signing of the 2003 Comprehensive Peace…

Liberia’s economic problems began before the first outbreak of conflict in 1989. Between 1987 and 1995, Liberia’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 90 per cent, and by the 2005 elections, average income in Liberia was one…

Members of the Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET), carry placards with messages of peace and non-violence during the electoral period. Photo: Emmanuel Tobey | UNMIL | 18 Oct 11 In Liberia, for 14 years, they have been…

All stakeholders in South Sudan must “engage genuinely and constructively in finding a political solution” to the conflict there, a senior United Nations peacekeeping official said at the end of her four-day visit.

United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita and UNMISS Chief David Shearer addressing the media at a press conference in Juba on 19 April 2018. I am concluding a four-day visit in South Sudan during which I had…

Laat Luka and Daniel Deng Joseph in Rumbek belong to different ethnic groups but have become friends forever. Photo: UNMISS/Eric Kanalstein Students at Abukloi Secondary School in Rumbek, in the Western Lakes region of South…