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Uror County communities come together to identify concrete steps towards peace

UROR COUNTY – “So many of us are dying for no reason.” Women representative, Nyawal Thon, perfectly captured the views of many other community members attending a reconciliation and peace event facilitated by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in remote Uror County, Jonglei. “This is why we need sessions like this that make us recognize our shared struggles and hopes so that we can translate them into concrete actions together,”…

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