UNMISS News

A newly built detention centre in Wau will provide young female offenders with a safe space where they are separated from adults accused of crimes. The female juvenile detention centre is the first of its kind in South Sudan…

South Sudanese youth are being encouraged to use social media to promote messages of peace rather than deepening divisions by sharing hate speech. Speaking at a Youth Peace Conference in the Lakes town of Rumbek, United…

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, will visit South Sudan next week to meet with political leaders, humanitarian actors, and internally displaced people living in…

Almost a dozen people injured in an armed attack in the Jonglei region have been provided with treatment, including access to x-ray facilities, by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). The attack by armed gunmen…

Children suffering from ongoing violence and poverty are urging political leaders to restore peace in the South Sudanese town of Yei. Yei is located about 150 kilometres south of the capital, Juba, and is a strategic outpost…

Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Eugene Owusu, has been farewelled by friends and colleagues as he leaves the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) after two years of service. At a farewell…

The United Nations is exploring the option of opening a new base in the conflict-ridden Yei region of South Sudan if warring parties agree to allow peacekeepers unfettered access to outlying villages. The Head of the United…

The town of Pagak is a stronghold for opposition forces in the Upper Nile region of South Sudan. However, its grip on the area is under threat as government troops steadily advance towards the town, with forces approaching…

Mongolian peacekeepers responded with force to an attempt by uniformed soldiers to abduct three internally displaced people working on their farms near a UN base in Bentiu, South Sudan. Deputy Commander of Sector North…

The United Nations is today attempting to access an orphanage caught between South Sudanese government and opposition forces who have taken up battle positions near the town of Torit in Eastern Equatoria. The United Nations…

It has the sterile smell of an ordinary hospital as well as the same neatly packed surgical masks and gloves, medicines, needles and other supplies needed in a fully equipped treatment centre. The difference is, this is one…

Indian peacekeepers have today provided lifesaving medical assistance to a woman who collapsed near a UN base at Melut in the Upper Nile region of South Sudan. An 18-year-old internally displaced woman who lives in the…