Engineering troops serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan are engaged in an ongoing battle against flooding caused by broken dykes in Bor, in Jonglei, aggravated by heavy downpours.
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UNMISS engineering troops and local youth are battling rising water levels to prevent parts of Bor to be submerged.
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Participants at a forum discussing the implementation of the peace agreement, including the provision of 35 per cent political representation for women.
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The police component of UNMISS and UNDP jointly organized a forum on crime prevention in Torit, Eastern Equatoria.
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Yashaswini Mittal, a United Nations Volunteer with UNMISS, works as a Judicial Affairs Officer with the mission’s Rule of Law Section. In the picture, Yashaswini and her colleagues hold up t-shirts during the annual commemoration of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence in Juba, South Sudan, with Judge Advocates from the Military Justice Directorate of the SSPDF.
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UNMISS recently organized a day-long forum in Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan for political stakeholders, community and religious leaders as well as civil society actors to widen engagement with the Revitalized Peace Agreement.