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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
‘I’m not happy when a child is a soldier’ – Torit pupils speak out against use of children in the...
Women in Bahr el Ghazal call for proper representation in government
A little boy's letter to the president: ‘I want a country where there is peace and harmony’
Clashes in Yei creating commuter refugees between South Sudan and neighbouring DRC
Defying the odds: The story of a Nepalese female peacekeeper serving in South Sudan
Yei residents torn between hope and despair as they endure fresh ordeals almost six months after...
Juvenile offenders in Torit prison excel in primary leaving exams, thanks to an accelerated...

Against all odds: Bunj’s biker girl becomes a boda boda road safety trailblazer

“I would like to ask you all a question.”

11 Feb 2019

Child marriage: A silent human rights and health concern in South Sudan’s Lakes region

Women of Eastern Lakes have decried early marriage, describing the practice as gender-based violence, and called on the government and traditional authorities to ensure the practice ceases immediately.

16 Feb 2019

Defying the odds: The story of a Nepalese female peacekeeper serving in South Sudan

Lance Corporal Mina Thapa not only defied the odds by joining the army – a male-dominated field – but went a notch higher by accepting to be a part of the Nepalese military peacekeeping force, now serving in South Sudan, far away from home.

17 Feb 2019

Clashes in Yei creating commuter refugees between South Sudan and neighbouring DRC

As a road patrol prepares to leave a United Nations Mission in South Sudan base in the town of Yei, the team leader warns those travelling to take great care during the trip to the southern part of war-torn South Sudan.

18 Feb 2019

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

UNMISS support for community clean-up in Wau encourages displaced families to return

Aweil Gadid was once a place that its people took pride in.

A clean and comfortable community.

19 Feb 2019

Displaced families return home from UN protection site in Wau

Ngovu village was a peaceful place to live before conflict erupted in the area three years ago.

The violence forced all of its inhabitants to flee to other areas within the Western Bahr El Ghazal region of South Sudan.

19 Feb 2019

New primary health centre inaugurated in Wau to support returnees’ health needs

A complex primary health care centre comprising an outpatient department, a maternity unit, a laboratory and pharmacy, has been inaugurated in the Jebel Kheir neighbourhood of Wau, to support the people who are voluntarily returning to their home areas following years of displacement due to confl

19 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

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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