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9 April 2013- The mandate of UNMISS does not include the defense of South Sudan's international boundaries or the monitoring of its border with Sudan, UNMISS staff members said at a community outreach event held today in…
Indian peacekeepers loading the casket of the late Lt. Col. Mahipal Singh, one of five UNMISS Indian Battalion soldiers who were killed in an ambush on 9 April by heavily armed assailants on the road between Gumuruk and Bor…
10 April 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for South Sudan, Hilde F. Johnson, paid tribute today to the five members of the UNMISS Indian Battalion who died in an ambush in Jonglei state on…
A wounded civilian arriving in Juba after an ambush on an UNMISS convoy by unidentified assailants near Gumuruk in Jonglei State on 9 April. Five peacekeepers and two civilians working with the mission were killed in the…
A member of the Indian Battalion checks a patient's blood pressure in the UNMISS hospital in Malakal, Upper Nile State. This year,the World Health Organization and partners are focusing on the global problem of high blood…
8 April 2013 - The South Sudan government must take all necessary steps to protect civilians during ongoing military operations in Jonglei State, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for South Sudan…
Following the ravages of more than two decades of civil war, the South Sudan Prisons Service had fallen into a sorry state. "All the prisons that were built before the war were either destroyed or completely damaged during…
As she cut and stitched cloth, Habib could have been any woman in a tailoring school, trying to learn a skill that would be useful in the future.That she might one day earn a living from tailoring was hardly debatable. It was…
South Sudanese government representatives as well as national and international mine action partners rolling up their pants' legs in Juba during the 2013 "Lend Your Leg" campaign to demonstrate solidarity with landmine…
4 April 2013 - Conflicting communities in Jonglei State were using children as weapons of war and triggering further violence, an UNMISS official said today in the state capital Bor. "(When) cattle raiders fail to get cattle…
Republic of Korea Engineering Company arriving at Juba International Airport to join UNMISS on 2 April. The 190 peacekeepers will be deployed to Bor, Jonglei, to carry out construction activities in the state. Photo: UNMISS…
1April 2013 - Concluding a peace conference in Rumbek today, members of the Kuei and Rup communities agreed to pay compensation for lives lost on both sides in fighting between rival youths. In two key resolutions adopted…