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About 100 uniformed women serving in South Sudan’s security sector are working towards combatting gender-based violence as well as securing a leading role in the country’s peace process. The women representing the national…
The dark room at the Indian hospital in Malakal feels a universe apart from the usual hustle and bustle of a UN peacekeeping mission. Lit by candles, bathing in soft music and the soothing scents of mint and eucalyptus, this…
Twenty-five-year-old peacekeeper Doctor Celine Kalingirwa’s mind is awash with a mixture of thoughts and emotions. The 4th of July is a difficult day for the army captain and the 1,000 uniformed and civilian Rwandese…
No more harassment, intimidation, abuses or arbitrary arrests. That’s the bright future hoped for in War-awar in Aweil East, following the delivery of a UN-funded police station to the officers in the area. The structure, and…
Under the rallying motto of “always and everywhere”, 275 engineers from Bangladesh have received the United Nations medal for their year-long service to the people of South Sudan. Standing at attention, they proudly saluted…
At the grand old age of 94, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has given the police station in Pibor a first and much-needed facelift. While the entire community was in a jealousy-inducing jubilant mood as the…
Growing up in Ghana, Private Asiwome Awudy never dreamed he would one day be in the army – at least not the British army. “I went through the motions as a young boy, not quite settled on what I wanted to be, however I always…
National police officers in Torit are back on the beat and keeping a close eye on crime clad in brand new uniforms and fresh from training provided by their counterparts serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan…
Civilians seeking shelter at the UN protection site in Bentiu are demanding that the parties to the revitalized peace agreement demilitarize civilian’s centres across the Unity region to allow them to return to their homes…
Some 600 pupils in Bentiu are celebrating an end to torturous rainy days, thanks to the timely intervention of Mongolian United Nations peacekeepers serving in the area. The Mongolian peacekeepers, serving under the United…
Some survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in South Sudan are condemned and rejected by their families, and the country’s Council of Churches (SSCC) wants this stigmatization of survivors of conflict-related sexual…
At 7.56 a.m. on Monday, Pulpham Ngor and her daughter, Chan Gatluak, boarded a commercial flight from Bor to see an eye surgeon at Boluk Eye Clinic in Juba. There, she would undergo successful 30-minute emergency eye surgery…