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United Nations Peacekeeping
2 March 2017 – The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) received two certificates of appreciation from the University of Juba today as the Mission and local universities in Juba organized the UNMISS Peace Fair along with the opening ceremony for the Inter-University Peace League.
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Members of the Mongolian Battalion in Bentiu photographed earlier this month. On 22 February their timely interventions rescued internally displaced persons about to be abducted.
Thousands of people have turned up in famine-struck Leer County to register for food aid delivered by the World Food Programme (WFP) and its humanitarian partners.
UNMISS PoC sites Update No.154
About 100 people participated in a workshop given by UNPOL in Wau on community policing, sexual gender-based violence and other relevant topics.
IOM rapid response team provides vaccinations for infants in Kajo-Keji. IOM Kintamo/2017
Essential medicines and supplies to cholera-affected communities in South Sudan being loaded to a cargo plane for further distribution. Photo by WHO.
Perhaps not the best cocktail in town, but oral cholera vaccine does slow down the spread of the potentially fatal disease. Worth a shot. Photo by WHO.
They should be farming, but can't. The Western Equatoria part of South Sudan, known for and proud of its traditional self-sufficiency and status as "bread basket" of the country, has seen agricultural output drop as a result of conflict.
UNMISS chief David Shearer on his visit to Yambio on 22 February.