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The easiest way to get around Pibor right now is by boat.
A UN Police officer makes a point during training on how to curb SGBV in Kapoeta
“Rape and child marriage are crimes… no matter the cultural justifications.”
Ragini Kumari conducts a foot patrol of a protection of civilians site while accompanied by a community elder.
Ragini Kumari has many appellations.
She is a devoted wife and mother of two, an avid practitioner of yoga and an aficionado of music.
Female UN Police officers meeting with the UN Police Advisor in Juba, 12 December 2019
Thousands of women and children sought sanctuary in United Nations protection sites when civil war broke out in South Sudan. Six years later, many remain in the camps, watching and waiting for the right time to leave as peace descends on the country.
UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 260 - 06 Dec to 12 Dec 2019
Students dance excitedly during the Family Open Day event in Yambio.
They clapped, they danced, and they sang.
Hundreds celebrated Human Rights Day with the theme “United for Peace”, at a day-long festival where students and their parents danced and sang side by side.
A combined group of Kabirize women at the closing of Jie-Murle conference in Jebel Buma
In July 2019, the Jie and Murle communities engaged in a bloody fight in Marua and other villages of South Sudan’s Boma area. The fight, in the Greater Jonglei region, left 85 people dead, while several others were wounded in what became the year’s worst raid.
United in South Sudan: UK and French ambassadors to South Sudan pose for a photo at the historical site of the Fashioda Incident
Late in the 19th century, two imperial powers’ ambitions intersected, literally, in the town of Fashoda, present-day Kodok, South Sudan.
Hajat Karama holds tightly onto her new solar radio
Hajat Karama has been relying on people around her to get news and information about what is going on in her country.
“I am an old woman who is unable to even move around freely due to limited mobility and vision,” she says.
In chains: A suspect accused of theft appears in a Mobile High Court in Yambio
Richard Nimeri has waited patiently for his case to be heard in court.