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Juba, 29 March 2019 – The Government of Japan has contributed US $1,468,374 to the United NationsMine Action Service (UNMAS), for the mine action project “Enabling Humanitarian Operations and
Biel Chuol in an ecstatic embrace with his father at the Akobo airstrip after returning from the UN protection site in Bor on 8 November, 2018.
When civil war broke out in South Sudan, thousands of families fled their homes and sought sanctuary at the United Nations base in Wau.
Jubilant fans at the end of the game
Animated spectators cheered the players on, in the name of peace, as a tournament that has lit up Yei town for nearly two weeks came to an end on Sunday.
Women and children sheltering under trees and church buildings in Yei town
“It was a hard day to describe, as men in uniform surrounded our village in pick-up cars and armoured personnel carriers, shooting everywhere at random.
It is not every day that a bicycle is viewed as an important tool for building peace, but in some remote and hard-to-reach areas of South Sudan, like Lopa, Ikotos, Torit East, Kidepo Valley, Chukudum, Kimotong and Riwoto Counties in the country’s Eastern Equatoria region, any item that eases tran
Within the tall walls of a prison fence, they have lived, in their hundreds. They have no clue what goes on around Torit town, because they have not stepped out of the prison in a long time.
With calm and normalcy slowly returning to many areas following the signing of the revitalized peace agreement in South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, previously displaced citizens are gearing up for returns to their places of origin.
A one-day peacebuilding dialogue concluded early this week in Gbudue area’s Bangasu County, bringing together some one hundred members of the James Diko community and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO).
UNMISS peacekeepers in Wau have been deployed to Kuarjena county to support the government in deescalating the ongoing insecurity caused by clashes between herders from Tonj and the host community in the area.
UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 230