Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a worldwide coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has continued to do everything within its capacity to assist the national-led COVID-
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UNMISS partnered with I Can South Sudan to organise a seven-day COVID-19 awareness raising campaign in Tambura. Tricycles and motorbikes with loudspeakers broadcast WHO-approved preventative measures in local languages.
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A women's representative from the Toposa community in Eastern Equatoria speaks to Governor Louis Lojore during a recent UNMISS-facilitated visit to remote areas on the state's easternmost border.
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UNMISS engineering troops and local youth are battling rising water levels to prevent parts of Bor to be submerged.
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Participants at a forum discussing the implementation of the peace agreement, including the provision of 35 per cent political representation for women.
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The police component of UNMISS and UNDP jointly organized a forum on crime prevention in Torit, Eastern Equatoria.
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Yashaswini Mittal, a United Nations Volunteer with UNMISS, works as a Judicial Affairs Officer with the mission’s Rule of Law Section. In the picture, Yashaswini and her colleagues hold up t-shirts during the annual commemoration of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence in Juba, South Sudan, with Judge Advocates from the Military Justice Directorate of the SSPDF.
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UNMISS recently organized a day-long forum in Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan for political stakeholders, community and religious leaders as well as civil society actors to widen engagement with the Revitalized Peace Agreement.