News

Tragedy spurs cattle keeper’s passion for peace at migration conference in South Sudan

Bashir Hamid is a cattle keeper from Misseriya, a nomadic community living in the border zone between Sudan and South Sudan.

22 Dec 2017

UNMISS Quick Impact Project helps boost education

The gifting of two new classrooms and an office by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan to a secondary school in Gogrial will help boost educational opportunities for children in the area.

22 Dec 2017

UNMISS welcomes signing of cessation of hostilities agreement in South Sudan

22 December 2017

UNMISS welcomes signing of cessation of hostilities agreement in South Sudan

22 Dec 2017

UNMISS partnering for a peaceful New Year

The Outreach team from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan went on a special mission to spread end-of-year holiday season greetings to the partners it has worked with to promote peace throughout 2017.

21 Dec 2017

UNMISS National Staff Association supports local orphanage and children’s hospital

The National Staff Association of the UN Mission in South Sudan has mobilized a variety of items to support vulnerable children at the Juba Orphanage Home and Al-Shabbah Children’s Hospital in the capital, Juba.

20 Dec 2017

UNMISS “children not soldiers” campaign encourages South Sudan army to protect children in Pibor

The Sudan People’s Liberation Army brigade based in the troubled town of Pibor has committed to protecting children caught up in the armed conflict that has raged across the country for four years.

20 Dec 2017

First Protection of Civilians site successfully closed in South Sudan as families choose to return home

After four years living in cramped conditions, families are finally leaving the protected camp next to the United Nations base in Melut to return to their homes.

20 Dec 2017

PRESS RELEASE: First Protection of Civilians site successfully closed in South Sudan as families choose to return home

The first Protection of Civilians site has been successfully closed in South Sudan after internally displaced families expressed the desire and confidence to return to their former homes.

20 Dec 2017