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UNMISS starts five-day mobile awareness drive using a tricycle with mounted loudspeakers broadcasting key preventative measures approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Yambio and Anzara. These messages are, of course, being broadcast in local languages widely spoken here.
As COVID-19 continues to cast a pall over the world creating health and safety risks for everyone, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is doing everything it can to support the efforts made on the national-led r
15 youth in Adong benefited from a unique vocational training opportunity initiated by the Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP) Section and Bangladeshi marine engineers from UNMISS in collaboration with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Humanitarian Development Consortium (HDC)
Acquiring vocational skills are always a premium for youth in conflict-affected regions across the world as such training equips young people, especially women, to become economically empowered and self-reliant.
UNMISS and the UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes in Torit provide essential health and safety items to stakeholders in Kapoeta, Eastern Equatoria.
Kapoeta in Eastern Equatoria is an area in South Sudan where frontline health workers were lacking in Personal Protective Equipment as COVId-19 cases continue to increase in the country.
Juba, 9 June 2020: Escalating intercommunal clashes in South Sudan are causing immense harm to civilians and risk pulling organized armed groups into conf
As Theresa Dak, a South Sudanese woman, dons her graduation gown, accessorized with the obligatory face mask in these times of COVID-19, she says she feels a sense of immense pride.
UNMISS Protection of Civilians (PoC) Sites Update No. 281 - 4 June 2020
Young people in Torit are galvanising themselves to support the national-led COVID-19 response in South Sudan by conducting door-to-door awareness raising with UNMISS-produced messages based on WHO guidelines.
As COVID-19 cases increase in South Sudan, more and more people are beginning to realize that preventing this disease as well as staying safe and healthy is a collective responsibility.
Ongoing renovations at the maternity ward, Torit State Hospital, to convert it into an isolation center for COVID-19
“As the largest United Nations presence on the ground here in Torit, we are doing all we can to support national-led COVID-19 response,” says Caroline Waudo, Head of Office, UNMISS Torit.
Hiroko Hirahara, civilian peacekeeper and Head of Field Office, UNMISS Bentiu, believes that more women in peacekeeping is the solution to sustainable peace in conflict zones.
“In all the years that I have spent working across conflict zones with United Nations Peacekeeping, I’ve discovered that women, genuinely, hold the key to sustainable peace.
Captain Rabina KC from Nepal serves with UNMISS and is the parade leader for this year's International Day of UN Peacekeepers ceremony in Juba.
Captain Rabina KC laughs when asked if it is difficult being a woman in uniform.