Morning trading is underway at the recently built fish market on the banks of the White Nile in the town of Bor and business is picking up.  Women sellers stand in a corrugated-iron roofed area behind neatly stacked piles of tilapia and Nile perch lined up on white-tiled concrete benches.

Following a three day National Women’s Open Day forum held in Juba, UNMISS Special Representative of the Secretary-General, David Shearer, on Thursday received a list of recommendations calling for women to play a concrete and leading role in the security and peace process in South Sudan.

On the occasion of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, the UNMISS, rehabilitated the garden area of the Kiir Mayardit Women’s Hospital, in Rumbek.