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Thirty-two-year-old Nyakong Nyal Deng slowly steps back and looks away as she covers her face. Her fingers gently sweep over her eyes.
She is hiding away her tears.
Emmanuel Kembe, VIP, Kawaja Revolution – all on one stage!
The unusual artistic trinity came to life in Malakal early this week, as they fired up a boisterous crowd at a peace concert fittingly called Malakal United.
Medical supplies for all at the Malakal prison as UNMISS peacekeepers make a vital donation.
Inmates at the state prison in Malakal have received a gift of medical supplies from Indian peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan. The donation includes antibiotics, fortified malnutrition supplements and bandages.
Members of the previously clashing communities of Manuer and Gak celebrate the signing of a peace deal.
Local leaders, youth and women of the Gak and Manuer sections in the counties of Aloor and Malueeth in the Greater Lakes region have unanimously agreed to end five years of inter-communal conflict that has claimed at least fifty lives.
Girls and women in Cuei Chok in the Lakes region have discussed their rights, which are often ignored.
As people gathered to commemorate the International Human Rights Day at Cuei Chok Primary School, I came across a group of seven teenage girls aged between 13 and 16 years seated with a 13-year-old boy. Attempting to talk to them, only the boy responded.
UNMISS Quick Impact Projects improve the lives of communities across South Sudan
The good people of Yei certainly knows how to have a good time, here celebrating Human Rights Day.
It was a blast!
A harmless and joyous one, to boot.
Residents of Yei this week rose to the occasion to celebrate Human Rights Day en masse.
A section of students of the John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology listen attentively at an UNMISS forum on identity
“If I take blood from any of you and ask that you identify which one is Dinka, Shilluk, Murle or Nuer, that will be impossible. Dinkas, Shilluks, Murlers, and Nuer – all have the same blood that unites us as South Sudanese people,” said Dr Agot Aleir Leek, Deputy Governor of Jonglei State.
Bentiu celebrated the International Human Rights Day demanding accountability for perpetrators of gender-based violence and other human rights violations.
“Human Rights oiye… oiye, oiye!!!!, shouted William Kuichiang from South Sudan’s Human Rights Commission in Bentiu, as he rallied those attending a celebration of those very rights.
Senior army officers in Yei, learning about the human costs of war, the rights and suffering of victims of sexual violence.
“If we don’t stand firm to end this war, we shall have no future. Young girls are being raped every day, yet grandmothers are not spared either. I do not know where we are heading as a nation.”