Internally displaced persons, residents of neighbouring communities, police and military representing both South Sudan and the UN peacekeeping mission: all were there, at the Yei Road checkpoint on the outskirts of Juba. Why?
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UN police officer assisting women at the Yei Road checkpoint with cooking ahead of a community gathering with South Sudan police.
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UNMISS peacekeepers from Rwanda and Sri Lanka are currently providing on-ground and aviation support, respectively, to colleagues at MINUSCA in the Central African Republic to ensure electoral and democratic processes continue in a peaceful manner.
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UNMISS peacekeepers from Ghana go beyond the mission's mandate to give emergency life-saving aid to an injured man in Mir Mir and evacuate him to Bentiu for medical attention.
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The International Day of Persons with Disabilities, and their human rights, were celebrated by playing wheelchair basketball in Juba.
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Many patients in Achong-Chong showed up when UNMISS peacekeepers handed over medications. They also dropped of educational material at a school in the area.
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The former governors Philip Aguer and David Yau Yau recently visited Bor to spread a message of reconciliation and social cohesion.