Press releases

  • UNMISS documents killings of civilians in Bentiu and Bor in April 2014
    09 Jan 2015 - Juba, 9 January 2015 - The UNMISS Human Rights Division today issued a 33-page report concerning allegations that armed opposition forces killed hundreds of civilians on 15 April 2014 after they retook control of the Unity State capital of Bentiu from government troops. The report also documents the killing of dozens of people by a mob of armed men who attacked the peacekeeping mission’s protection-of-civilians site outside the Jonglei state capital of Bor two days later.
  • UNMISS condemns the continued targeting of civilians in Bentiu
    19 Dec 2014 - Juba, 19 December 2014 - The Human Rights Division of the UN Mission in South Sudan has issued a report concerning allegations that opposition forces killed at least 11 civilians and committed other serious human rights abuses during an attack in the Unity State capital of Bentiu last October.
  • UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for power-sharing agreement in South Sudan
    15 Dec 2014 - New York, 15 December 2014 - Today marks one year since conflict broke out in the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan. I am dismayed and saddened that the parties have yet to reach a comprehensive peace agreement.
  • UNMISS commemorates International Human Rights Day
    10 Dec 2014 - Juba, 10 December, 2014 - At a ceremony held in Juba today to commemorate International Human Rights Day, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Loej, read out UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Human Rights Day, which this year is being observed under the slogan “Human Rights 365” to underscore the message that every day of the year should be Human Rights Day.
  • UNMISS launches destruction of weapons confiscated from internally displaced persons
    09 Dec 2014 - Juba, 9 December, 2014 - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan destroyed 25 firearms and hundreds of knives, machetes, and similar weapons confiscated from internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in its protection-of-civilians sites in Juba at a public event held today in its Tomping compound.
  • UN denies media reports of plan to make South Sudan a UN “protectorate”
    02 Dec 2014 - Juba, 2 December 2014 - There have been persistent reports in South Sudanese and regional media alleging that the United Nations has a plan to place the Republic of South Sudan under a "protectorate." Members of the Government of South Sudan have also brought these reports to the attention of the leadership of UNMISS and voiced their concern.
  • UNMISS declines IGAD request to transport opposition leaders to consultative conference in Pagak
    27 Nov 2014 - Juba, 27 November 2014 - The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) wishes to correct erroneous media reports claiming that the Mission has sought the consent of the Government of the Republic of South Sudan (GRSS) to use the Mission’s aircraft to transport delegates of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army In Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) from locations inside the country to a consultative conference in Pagak, South Sudan.
  • Government of South Sudan and UN launch Children, not Soldiers campaign
    29 Oct 2014 - Juba, 29 October 2014 - The Government of South Sudan, with the support of the United Nations, today launched the "Children, not Soldiers" campaign nationally, marking the country’s renewed commitment to end the recruitment and use of children by its army.
  • UNMISS condemns abductions of UNMISS employee and WFP staff at Malakal airfield
    21 Oct 2014 - Juba, 17 October 2014 - On 10 October, three Individual Contractors employed by UNMISS, who were working at the airfield in Malakal, were seized by an unidentified armed group of 15 to 20 men in uniformed and civilian clothes and driven away in a pick-up truck.
  • UNMISS denies report of peacekeepers reinforcing SPLA garrisons
    30 Sep 2014 - Juba, 30 September 2014 - The attention of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has been drawn to allegations that appeared yesterday, in an article that was posted on the pro-armed opposition website nyamile.com, accusing the UNMISS peacekeepers of installing barbed wire fencing around SPLA garrisons in various locations in South Sudan to prevent SPLA troops from abandoning their positions in the event of future attacks.

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