UNMISS News

10 July 2014 - The African Union (AU) General Assembly today extended by three months the mandate of its Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan to allow for more extensive consultations, a statement issued by the AU in the…

9 July 2014 - The real humanitarian heroes in South Sudan were the country’s citizens who were doing everything possible to assist fellow citizens in need, the Acting Humanitarian Coordinator Sue Lautze said in a statement…

Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General Raisedon Zenenga, UN Police Commissioner Fred Yiga and UNMISS Human Rights Director Ibrahim Wani meeting South Sudan National Police Service leadership in Juba to explain…

9 July 2014 - There were repeated calls for peace and security to prevail in the country as hundreds of people gathered in the capitals of South Sudan’s ten states to celebrate the third Independence Day anniversary…

9 July 2014 - Even before the crisis, many South Sudanese people saw no reason to celebrate independence, internally displaced persons (IDPs) said in Juba recently, ahead of today’s third independence anniversary celebrations…

9 July 2014 - The South Sudanese people voted in the referendum to become “first class citizens” in their own country, but were now at risk of losing that freedom, President Salva Kiir Mayardit said in Juba today as the…

9 July 2014 - As South Sudan celebrates its third independence anniversary today, the top UN official yesterday reminded the country’s political leaders that the ongoing crisis is man-made and that it is their responsibility…

8 July 2014- To help store blood for patients in need, President Salva Kiir inaugurated a new National Public Health Laboratory, Blood Bank and Diagnostic Center in Juba today. The laboratory, worth about 16 million South…

7 July 2014 - To empower Western Equatoria youth to become “ambassadors of peace”, the state government today organized a forum in the state capital Yambio. Hundreds of youth attended the meeting and listened to key…

8 July 2014 - An end to the fighting in South Sudan would not by itself provide an adequate solution to the country’s crisis, outgoing Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) to South Sudan Hilde F. Johnson…

Children playing in new protection site next to UN House in Juba. About 100 people move here daily from Tomping base. Photo: UNMISS/John Mcilwaine

7 July 2014 - The ongoing crisis in South Sudan was “such a watershed moment” that it was easy to forget all that UNMISS had achieved before its onset, outgoing Mission Chief Hilde F. Johnson said in Juba today. Speaking at a…