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JONGLEI – With floods and repeated conflict, people in Jonglei have had little to celebrate in past months. All that changed last weekend, though, when some 5,000 ecstatic fans—youth from several different ethnic group…
LAKES – Building capacities among local counterparts is something United Nations Police (UNPOL) officers in South Sudan are passionate about. In Cuiebet, Lakes state, some 50 police officers from the South Sudan National…
JONGLEI – For the most part legal professionals in Jonglei, have been setting up ad hoc ‘offices’ under trees, to deliver necessary services to community members. However, this changed when the United Nations Mission in South…
GREATER PIBOR ADMINISTRATIVE AREA – Health is, indeed, wealth as the adage goes. Nobody understands this better than Blue Helmets serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) who have been protecting…
NORTHERN BAHR EL GHAZAL - Peace. Partnerships. Progress. These were the main objectives of the Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative and Resident Coordinator for South Sudan, Sara Beysolow Nyanti’s maiden visit to…
JONGLEI – The fish trade in Bor, South Sudan, is thriving. Much of it, according to local traders and authorities has to do with the construction of the of the Bor fish market in 2016 by the United Nations Mission in South…
WESTERN EQUATORIA - Jack Kerouac was onto something when he wrote, and titled, his cult novel On the Road: there is something intrinsically romantic about roads. Roads are movement, and movement comes with the potential of…
NORTHERN BAHR-EL-GHAZAL - Can the Chapter Five of the 2018 revitalized peace agreement be implemented? Can the Hybrid Court for South Sudan be established? And, what exactly is transitional justice, the topic addressed in the…
WARRAP – Frequent clashes between communities living in Twic county, Warrap state, and neighboring Abyei Special Administrative Region have created a situation where innocent people are increasingly displaced and the security…
JONGLEI – Following the redesignation of the UN protection of civilians site in Bor into a conventional camp for internally displaced persons, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) continues to assist the South…
WESTERN EQUATORIA – Equal rights for women and girls is a shared struggle across the world. In South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, the gender gap has been exacerbated by conflict, a patriarchal culture and age-old…
WESTERN EQUATORIA – Happiness has been in short supply across the greater Tambura region of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state. In June 2021, violence erupted here, killing many and displacing tens of thousands. Since then…