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UNMISS road maintenance work from Yambio to Jambo making great headway
Nepalese peacekeeper in Rumbek: “I have contributed to the service of humanity”
Slow implementation of peace agreement, lack of basic services impeding returns in opposition-...
The displaced in Wau getting ready to return home: ‘When I go home, I will do business and...
Robust Ebola preparedness in Yei as fatality cases hike in neighbouring DR Congo
Cultural festival brings displaced families and UN staff together to celebrate peace in protection...
UNMISS support for community clean-up in Wau encourages displaced families to return
Displaced families return home from UN protection site in Wau
New primary health centre inaugurated in Wau to support returnees’ health needs
Wau marchers wow spectators with fanfare and tug-of-peace tussle in campaign to end use of child...

A little boy's letter to the president: ‘I want a country where there is peace and harmony’

Solomon Atem Akech nearly lost the opportunity to deliver an important item – a neatly folded letter, addressed to the president of South Sudan – because no one had invited him to read it out.

18 Feb 2019

‘I’m not happy when a child is a soldier’ – Torit pupils speak out against use of children in the army

Mon Kon is not a child soldier – as children who have been forcibly conscripted into the armed forces are commonly known – but the phenomenon saddens him.

18 Feb 2019

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Cultural festival brings displaced families and UN staff together to celebrate peace in protection site

There is a sea of white tents as far as the eye can see.

The makeshift structures next to the United Nations base in Juba are home to thousands of families displaced by the war that has plagued South Sudan for more than five years.

20 Feb 2019

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Robust Ebola preparedness in Yei as fatality cases hike in neighbouring DR Congo

South Sudanese refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo “commuting” to their home country in search of food not given to them across the border do not only constitute a sad hu

21 Feb 2019

The displaced in Wau getting ready to return home: ‘When I go home, I will do business and cultivate my own food’

The UN Mission in South Sudan is finalizing preparations to repatriate more than 20 people from the Greater Upper Nile who had sought sanctuary at its base in Wau.

21 Feb 2019

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Nepalese peacekeeper in Rumbek: “I have contributed to the service of humanity”

Rajendra Baniya is part of the Nepalese peacekeeping contingent serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Based in Rumbek, Rajendra has a strong “passion to save humanity”.

22 Feb 2019

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UNMISS road maintenance work from Yambio to Jambo making great headway

The flow of traffic between Yambio and Mundri has increased over the past few weeks as Bangladeshi peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan continue with much-needed road repairs.

22 Feb 2019

Nepalese peacekeeper in Rumbek: “I have contributed to the service of humanity”

Rajendra Baniya is part of the Nepalese peacekeeping contingent serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Based in Rumbek, Rajendra has a strong “passion to save humanity”.

22 Feb 2019

Slow implementation of peace agreement, lack of basic services impeding returns in opposition-controlled areas of Wau

Issues impeding voluntary returns in opposition-controlled areas of Wau have been raised at a one-day round-table discussion that brought together the leadership of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement in Opposition (SPLA/M-IO) in the area.

21 Feb 2019

The displaced in Wau getting ready to return home: ‘When I go home, I will do business and cultivate my own food’

The UN Mission in South Sudan is finalizing preparations to repatriate more than 20 people from the Greater Upper Nile who had sought sanctuary at its base in Wau.

21 Feb 2019

Partner in Peace

The UNMISS Human Rights Division knows one must 'Lead by Example' and that leaders are the example. Speech and the written word can be a crippling and destructive weapon. A Kenyan expert brings a neighbors’ experienced voice into the fray of the South Sudan political forum to drive this reality home.

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United Nations Universal Children's Day was established in 1954 and is celebrated to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children's welfare.

Take-a-look as the children of South Sudan command the airwaves of the UN Mission’s Radio Miraya and pour their hearts out onto paper in a drawing competition to promote their values and dreams and those of children world-wide in securing the future they desire.

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