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When the blue helmets from one of UNMISS’s engineering contingents based in Malakal -- the Indian Horizontal and Mechanical Company (HMEC) – first arrived at Khor Adar, the situation on the ground was dire. “Recent floods had…

As the Coronavirus spreads globally, farmers in the Aweil area of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal are not exempted from the impact: preventive measures taken by the government make cultivating land difficult. While social distancing…

On this year’s World Health Day, the world faces an unprecedented challenge in the form of COVID-19. With two people having tested positive for the virus, the Health Services at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan…

Heeding the advice of health experts, community leaders at the Bor protection of civilians site have forbidden all visitors, thus making it less difficult for people living here to adhere to the necessity of social distancing…

In Torit, a town in eastern Equatoria, close to the border of Uganda, people are worried. “While the government has closed borders for the time being, we are concerned about people slipping in and out between Uganda and South…

When civil war erupted in Juba in 2013, Nyapouk Maaliah Mathiang’s husband was among the many people who lost their lives during the battle that raged across the capital city. Seven years later, she will finally get the…

Health professionals have raised awareness among the leadership of the almost 28,000 internally displaced people staying at the UN protection site in Malakal on how to prevent an outbreak of the pandemic Coronavirus among…

For social creatures of habit, it is a big ask to break away from routine behaviour to keep ourselves and others as safe as possible from the invisible threat, the Coronavirus. Yet adapting to an unwanted reality and heeding…

South Sudanese juvenile detention officers have learnt skills for handling children in conflict with the law and held at a new reformatory school Juba. “Now I know that children to be reformed must be between 12 and 17 years…

More than 190 children returning to Gunyoro village near Torit in Eastern Equatoria have resumed school activities, albeit under difficult circumstances. “During the 2016 crisis, this school closed because our people were…

Fifty officers serving with the South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) in Eastern Equatoria have enjoyed a training session to improve their criminal investigative skills and further their understanding of human rights…

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, has begun a campaign to resettle returnees who were displaced during last year’s intercommunal clashes living in the Rumbek North area. “We realized that household food…