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Children at Kapuri School in Central Equatoria State helping to carry blocks for new school new school with UNMISS Rwandan battalion built with community. Photo: UNMISS / JC McIlwaine
13 November 2014 - To prevent an outbreak of polio among children living in the protection site at the UNMISS base in the Unity State capital Bentiu, health partners today started a three-day vaccination campaign. Led by the…
13 November 2014 - There has been a notable fall in crime levels being reported at the UNMISS Protection of Civilians site in Malakal, Upper Nile State, the UN Police State Advisor said today. “In the past three months, the…
12 November 2014 - It was vital to empower women through education and agricultural activities to reduce their vulnerability to all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, a senior official in the Northern Bahr El-Ghazal…
9 November 2014 - Sexual exploitation and abuse is “an abominable act” which is punishable by law and should not be tolerated, UNMISS Jonglei State Coordinator Hazel de Wet stressed in the state capital Bor today. Ms. Hazel…
Six school boys in the Jonglei State capital Bor recently benefited from a scholarship which one UNMISS peacekeeper set up using money collected from haircuts he gave his colleagues. When Captain Lee Jae-woo first arrived at…
Efforts are underway in the Jonglei State capital Bor to identify, trace and reunify hundreds of children separated from their families during the worst days of the South Sudan conflict. “Upon identification and subsequent…
Girl making handicrafts out of polyethylene bags at UNMISS protection site in Juba. Photo: UNMISS / JC McIlwaine
10 November 2014 - The first convoy of food assistance moved through Sudan to South Sudan had arrived in Upper Nile State through Sudan, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced today. The convoy consisted of 18 trucks…
9 November 2014- The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Special Envoys for South Sudan today welcomed the agreement by the government and opposition of a detailed timetable to implement the Cessation of…
UNMISS peacekeeper from Japan holding boy at House of Hope orphanage in Juba, during contingent’s visit to children. Photo: UNMISS / JC McIlwaine
5 November 2014 - Internally displaced people (IDPs) seeking shelter at the UNMISS base in the Jonglei State capital Bor today received various non-food items from the mission’s outgoing South Korean military unit. The…