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18 December 2014 - Seeking to improve sanitary conditions in Marol Market in Bor, Jonglei State, UNMISS Ethiopian peacekeepers today joined town residents in a cleaning campaign.
17 December 2014 - Aiming to assist an educational system that is constantly disrupted by conflicts, UNMISS South Korean engineers today handed over a classroom block to Lualdit Primary School in Bor County, Jonglei State.
17 November - UN Police (UNPOL) today harvested over 150 tubers of yam with local residents on a demonstration farm in Katire, Ikwoto County of Eastern Equatoria State.
18 December 2014 - As part of efforts to ensure security for displaced persons, UNMISS and the UN Mine Action service (UNMAS) today destroyed weapons and ammunition found in its camp in Nasir, Upper Nile State.
16 December 2014 - Following several disputes between farmers and cattle keepers, UNMISS held a one-day conflict mitigation workshop today in Rumbek, Lakes State.
Cattle keepers had been moving their animals from Rumbek East County through Wulu County, damaging local farms.
15 December 2014 - The failure to reach peace at Addis Ababa talks one year after the South Sudan conflict erupted is due to lack of political will, Bishop Enock Tombe said today on UN Radio Miraya.
Ammunition collected from displaced persons at UNMISS protection areas in Malakal, Upper Nile, awaiting destruction by mission on 12 December (see story below). Photo: UNMISS/JC McIlwaine
12 December 2014 - UNMISS and the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) today destroyed weapons and ammunition recovered from civilians seeking refuge in the UNMISS base in Malakal, Upper Nile State.
New York, 15 December 2014 - Today marks one year since conflict broke out in the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan. I am dismayed and saddened that the parties have yet to reach a comprehensive peace agreement.
12 December 2014 - All media should improve reporting on sexual violence to help create accurate data and curb impunity for such crimes, a national human rights activist said in Juba today.