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South Sudan President and Members of the UN Security Council pose for a group photo shortly after their meeting in Juba on 20 October 2019. Security Council members were in Juba to help progress the country's peace process.
Touching down in South Sudan, a high-powered delegation of 15 members of the United Nations Security Council described their flying visit as an opportunity to secure lasting peace in the conflict-affected country.
“Today is the right time. Immigration officers have to handle foreign traders from neighbouring countries with dignity and humanity,” advised Corporal Iwa Joseph Ben, a police officer at the Torit area police headquarters.
Concerned about years of conflict in their country, students in South Sudan’s Wau area have taken proactive steps to contribute to fostering peaceful coexistence by forming peace clubs in their schools.
UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 252
The spelling bees: Some of the contestants await the start of the competition
Words such as ‘boundaries’, ‘ceasefire’, ‘diversity’, ‘implementation’, ‘constitution’, and ‘democracy’ are some of the few that they struggled to spell out, yet the Aweil students seemed to be enjoying themselves in a spelling contest that also served as a learning forum.
More than 40 members of South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) have benefited from a two-day training organized by the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Kuajok, Gogrial.
A teacher asks a question during the training in Bentiu.
“I have been teaching for three years. Many of my colleagues abandoned their profession and ran to organizations and companies with better pay. My main objective is to bring up my brothers and sisters from the lower level because they are the future of tomorrow.”
Women leaders in South Sudan’s Wau area have been urged to unite and be peace ambassadors as the country prepares for the formation of a transitional government in November.
At 101.5FM, about 75 per cent of the over 400,000 inhabitants of the Tonj area are now listening to Radio Miraya, run by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
Joseph John has been working for several years as a radio reporter at a local radio station in Wau, Voice of Hope, despite his limited knowledge of human rights reporting.