Press releases

The Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Eugene Owusu, has strongly condemned the killing of six aid workers in an ambush on 25 March. The aid workers were travelling from Juba to Pibor. “I am appalled and outraged by the heinous murder yesterday of six courageous humanitarians in South Sudan,”…

(Full coverage of the 23 March 2017 Security Council session on South Sudan here) Excellencies, I thank His Excellency Mr. Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, for his presence here today for this important meeting on South Sudan. Before we turn to today’s…

(Scroll down for audio version) Up to 75 per cent of people living in Imatong state may have left their homes because they cannot get enough to eat, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, David Shearer, has been told by community leaders in Torit. Mr Shearer was visiting Torit on…

As the President of the General Assembly just referred, this day reminds us that in 1960 in Sharpeville, South Africa, 69 unarmed protestors were killed in a peaceful protest against the discriminatory pass laws of the racist apartheid regime. I join my voice to his voice in praising South Africa’s…

21 March 2017 Media Briefing by Mr. Hervé Ladsous. Juba, Republic of South Sudan, 21 March 2017 UNMISS Spokesperson – Daniel Dickinson: So, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, my name is Daniel Dickinson spokesperson for UNMISS and I have met many of you before. I would like to welcome you and the…

(Scroll down for audio version) The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer, has praised efforts made by peacekeepers involved in a rescue operation following the crash-landing of a commercial plane at Wau airport in the north-west of the country. The plane, an…

Mr. Chairman, Excellencies and distinguished delegates, I would like to thank H.E Ndumiso Ntshinga, the President of the African Union Peace and Security Council for providing me the opportunity to address this august body for the first time. The United Nations maintains its partnership with this…

(Full speech of the Chair of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan to the UN Human Rights Council on 14 March attached below) Amid a “massive” increase in gross human rights violations, as well as an escalation in fighting in South Sudan, the head of a United Nations rights probe said today…

Bor, 15 March 2017: South Korean peacekeepers have completed repairing the Bor - Mangala road stretch. The 125km road is a major road stretch, linking Greater Equatoria region with Jonglei State. Equipped with heavy bulldozers and other road machinery, the Korean peace keepers started work on this…

Bor, 14 March 2017 - More than 300 people have graduated from an intensive training course in technical and vocational skills including carpentry, welding, electricity, and construction in Bor. The graduates were passed out last week from two training centers, established by the UNMISS Korean…