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UNMISS medical personnel take necessary precautions to keep staff safe and healthy, assist local populations

On this year’s World Health Day, the world faces an unprecedented challenge in the form of COVID-19.

07 Apr 2020

UNMISS protection site for displaced people bans visits to prevent spread of COVID-19

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.

06 Apr 2020

UNMISS and humanitarian partners in Torit step up sensitization of local communities on COVID-19

In Torit, a town in eastern Equatoria, close to the border of Uganda, people are worried.

06 Apr 2020

COVID-19 case confirmed in South Sudan

Juba, South Sudan, 5 April 2020: The United Nations in South Sudan has confirmed a case of corona virus disease (COVID-19) among its staff.

05 Apr 2020

UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 271 - 30 March 2020

30 Mar 2020

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Displaced families leave protection site to return home to Bentiu

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.

27 Mar 2020

UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 270 - 23 March 2020

23 Mar 2020

UNMISS announces travel freeze to support COVID-19 prevention and preparedness.

UNMISS announces travel freeze to support COVID-19 prevention and preparedness

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has put a seven-day freeze on staff travelling into South Sudan as part of the peacekeeping mission’s support for national-led COVID-19 prevention efforts.

23 Mar 2020

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UNMISS staff adapting to COVID-19: breaking habits, keeping a distance, intensified hand washing

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 expert advice is essential.

20 Mar 2020

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UNMISS prepares juvenile detention officers to run first ever reformatory school at Juba

South Sudanese juvenile detention officers have learnt skills for handling children in conflict with the law and held at a new reformatory school Juba.

19 Mar 2020

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