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Health worker measuring baby’s arm during UNICEF and World Food Programme launch of joint nutrition response plan for South Sudan. Photo: UNMISS/JC McIlwaine

9 September 2015 - With a child becoming severely malnourished every two minutes, the nutrition situation in South Sudan remained dire, UNICEF Country Representative Jonathan Veitch said in a press statement today. The…

9 September 2015 - Western Equatoria State Legislative Assembly today reopened in the state capital Yambio, following a long recess and the death of Speaker Bage James Elia, who was killed by unknown gunmen last month…

9 September 2015 - UN Police (UNPOL) and South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) recently launched a community policing awareness campaign in Torit County’s Efanyak community. According to Gabriel Adaka, an SSNPS warrant…

South Sudan joins the global community in celebrating International Literacy Day on 8 September. Photo: UNMISS/JC McIlwaine

South Sudan national football team Bright Stars won their first ever competitive game against Equatorial Guinea on 5 August. Photo: UNMISS/JC McIlwaine.

7 September 2015 - With the rainy season making roads impassable, the World Food Programme (WFP) began air dropping much-needed food in the Unity State capital Bentiu today. According to Francis Sarpong, WFP head of office in…

4 September 2015 - To improve living conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living at the UNMISS protection-of-civilians (PoC) site in the Upper Nile State capital Malakal, humanitarian partners recently started…

1 September 2015 - Over 100 foreign national asylum seekers arrived today at Makpandu refugee settlement in Yambio, Western Equatoria State, from a UNMISS protection-of-civilians (PoC) site in Juba. The voluntary relocation…

Children arriving at refugee settlement in Makpandu, Western Equatoria State during relocation of over 100 foreign nationals from UNMISS protection site in Juba. Photo: UNMISS/Isaac Billy

President Salva Kiir signing peace agreement to resolve country's conflict in Juba on 26 August. Photo: UNMISS/Isaac Billy

1 September 2015 - Crime rates in the UNMISS protection site in the Upper Nile State capital Malakal had reduced as a result of joint efforts by UN Police (UNPOL) and internally displaced persons’ security watch groups, an…