UNMISS News

Youth in Aweil are blaming the government and “society” for their high levels of unemployment and for not being allowed to participate sufficiently in peace building and conflict mitigation. Such discouraging circumstances…

Murle and Dinka women from Boma and Bor respectively have signed a memorandum of understanding to end the violence persistently plaguing relations between the two communities. “Women from Pibor and women from Jonglei condemn…

“Freedom of expression, access to information and civic space is what we want and need to effectively exercise the roles of civil society in the implementation of South Sudan’s peace agreement,” said Edmond Yakani, Executive…

Women from greater Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal and Warrap are calling for their rights to be heard and duly respected, and for full participation in the peacebuilding process in their country. “Women do have the same rights as…

Today, they are the lucky ones. Theirs was a quick trip to the agreed training venue, because they live here in Kapoeta in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria region. Colleagues from further afield, from neighbouring counties…

“We still have more questions than answers in our minds,” admits Peter Boscoe Lotyang, the Speaker of Parliament for Kapoeta in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria region. The revitalized peace agreement, signed in September 2018…

In the past two years, frequent incidents of child abductions have become a security threat in Torit, Kapoeta and other parts of the Eastern Equatoria region. Civil society organizations have therefore called for an inter…

The bright Juba sunrise rays blast through the sprawling rickety structures that form the UN protection site, adjacent to the Organization’s base in the South Sudanese capital. For Nyamuon, Nyachoat and Nyaliep, it is the…

“We are tired. We are losing our husbands, we are losing our children. How long are we going to talk about peace?” cries Alice Senna Philip, as she sits alongside other weeping women in a dark, humid tukul (hut) in the heart…

Sand has been piled up. Gravel is on the ready. A water tank is full. Some building blocks have been stacked up to one side, while others are being laid orderly, one on top of the other and smoothened with plaster. A handful…

The Deputy Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for humanitarian affairs and 50 high-level delegates from the international donor community have been in Wau to assess the humanitarian situation in the area. The one…

Returnees in Torit area’s Pajok have appealed to South Sudanese authorities to bring services nearer and protect them from any imminent risk, so they can enjoy the dividends of the revitalized peace agreement, signed in Addis…