Students at Abukloi Secondary School in Rumbek, in the Western Lakes region of South Sudan have formed Peace and Human Rights clubs, calling for peace and an end to violence perpetuated by ethnic divisions. Their friendship efforts at school have so far have paid off spectacularly well.

Nurses, doctors and other staff at Juba Teaching Hospital are no longer afraid when they scurry between different wards, departments and life-saving interventions at night.

During a six-day-long patrol, staff members of the UN Mission in South Sudan were told by communities in Yirol and Mingkaman in the Eastern Lakes area that they want to be able to listen to the news and other programmes aired by Radio Miraya, the peacekeeping mission’s radio station in the countr