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Senegalese police officer serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo awarded 2019 United Nations Female Police Officer of the Year
Major Seynabou Diouf of the Senegal National Police has been selected as the 2019 United Nations Female Police Officer of the Year. Major Diouf currently leads a task force that helps to prevent and end sexual exploitation…
Opposition forces at the Wunuliet cantonment site commit to making their ranks free of children
Officials of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition, SPLA-IO, have reiterated their commitment to releasing any child found within their ranks. The call was made at a two-day training programme organized by the…
Precarious state of education highlights desperate need for peace in Landili, Western Equatoria
Landili, a strategically situated town near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in the south-western part of the country, has been facing security problems ever since the end of South Sudan’s most recent crisis…
UN-led Trust Fund Breathes New Life Into Koch
Mary Nyakuaikoch was born in Koch. She was married in Koch, gave birth to her children and remained in the town despite violence raging around her when civil war broke out across South Sudan. She intends the town to be her…
UNISFA conducts the 7th round of SSAFE training
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) held a three-day Security’s Safe and Secure Approach to the Field Environment (SSAFE) training between 20 and 22 May 2019 in Abyei with Eighteen (18) participants…
Croatian Contingent ends mission with UNIFIL
UNIFIL’s Croatian Contingent has ended its mission with UNIFIL with the departure of 49 troops from south Lebanon today. The Croatian peacekeepers worked with UNIFIL’s Italian Contingent in Sector West. The Sector…
UNMISS supports accelerated English learning program for over 140 women police officers in Bor
When a group of UN police officers in Bor realized that most of their female South Sudanese colleagues could not read, speak or write English and hence were relegated to making tea for their male coworkers, they decided to…
Strengthening women’s participation in peace and conflict resolution processes in Abyei
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) through its Gender Advisory Team conducted a training on basic gender and human rights concepts, women’s rights, and women, peace and security as well as the…
SRSG Tanin holds pre-Security Council meetings in Belgrade
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić, and ambassadors and…
‘We are the light of South Sudan,’ say graduates of UN-run vocational school in Bor
The ninth batch of youth who have received training in different fields has graduated from a vocational centre run by Republic of Korean peacekeepers in Bor after completing a 20-week hands-on curriculum. 52 students, among…