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Rounok Jahan, a Bangladeshi UN police officer serving with UNMISS, dares to be different. She hopes you do, too.
Rounok Jahan has been breaking down gender barriers her whole life.
First by deciding as a child that she would join the male-dominated police force in her home country of Bangladesh.
Representatives from the Guit and Rubkona communities in Unity discuss how to prevent intercommunal conflicts related to cattle migration and scarce resources.
Cattle herders, traditional chiefs, representatives of youths and women, peace coordinators and church leaders from the Guit and Rubkona communities in the Unity region of South Sudan have committed themselves to avoid conflicts and violence during the seasonal migration of their animals in searc
Vera Ayensu, a UN police officer from Ghana, instructs her colleagues in Wau.
“I am highly honored to acquire the big [UN] family’s medal. It means that we are the best police officers of our country.”
The Force Commander of the UN peacekeeping mission on a recent visit to Koch in the Unity region.
The UN Mission in South Sudan has temporarily deployed peacekeepers to Koch County in Northern Liech to protect civilians and humanitarian workers and encourage displaced people to return to their homes.
Cattle and a lack of pastures and water points are at the centre of intercommunal clashes in the Greater Lakes region.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan, together with local authorities in Western Lakes, has begun a series of sessions to avoid conflicts in cattle camps ahead of the notoriously resource-scarce and hence violent dry season, which typically runs till early April.
A much-improved security situations means that women (soldiers and/or wives of male troops) can move around freely and thus go about their hard work.
"We are happy with the changes that we are seeing as a result of the signing of the [revitalized] peace agreement. The ceasefire is holding up nicely and the security situation is calm.
Bridges are lifelines, connecting people. This one in Lakes has been repaired by UNMISS engineers.
A simple task of meshing together metal pallets and bars to repair a broken bridge has provided a lifeline for communities in the Lakes region of South Sudan, enabling traders to travel more easily and ensuring humanitarian relief reaches families in need.
The lecturing man has a valid point: children are not soldiers.
“I do not want children to suffer like we do in the bushes. They are our future, and we want to open the gates of success for them by removing them from the army,” said a Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition’s Lieutenant Colonel, Mawa Bosco Oliver, himself a father of six.
Not happy. Several Aweil attending a workshop on human rights complained that their entitlements are ignored.
“We, the women in Aweil, are not having even one percent of our rights being respected,” says the local female minister of social development, Arek Ayii Deng.
Back in business: A passenger aircraft at the newly rehabilitated Pibor airstrip
A bottle of water retails at 200 South Sudanese pounds or SSP (just under $1) in Boma area’s Pibor town. But that is a smaller matter. To get any kind of medical service, each member of the area’s impoverished population must have no less than 30,000 SSP ($100).