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UN urges South Sudan’s warring parties to make genuine progress at upcoming peace talks

Nyalei Yar has lived at a temporary protection site next to a small United Nations base in the Unity region of South Sudan for three years.

11 May 2018

UNMISS essay contest winners: Women should participate in all decision-making for peace

Amid high spirits and enthusiasm marked by cheers, ululations, robust drumming, singing and nimble dancing, the winners of the nationwide essay writing competition on Wednesday 9 May seized their much-deserved glistening trophies at Nyakuron Cultural Centre in the capital Juba.

10 May 2018

UN peacekeepers donate medicines to hospital and prison in Bor

Peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan have donated an assortment of some 30 different types of health-improving medicines to the main hospital and prison in Bor in the Greater Jonglei region.

09 May 2018

Regional essay winner from Eastern Equatoria commits to being an agent of peace

Holding a golden trophy high in the air in an act of celebration, Jacob Mach Kuany from Kapoeta Day Secondary School proudly represented his part of the country as the regional winner of the nationwide essay competition for Eastern Equatoria.

09 May 2018

SPLA women gender-trained by UNMISS: “We need to unite and support each other”

Under the theme “Military women contributing to peace and Security”, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan today initiated a 3-day-long workshop targeting 120 female members of South Sudan’s armed forces, SPLA.

07 May 2018

Mayen-Jur County: Where Nuer and Dinka cattle keepers enjoy peaceful coexistence

Mayen-Jur County, near Kuajok in the north-eastern part of the country, could potentially serve as a good example for conflict-ridden areas, where fighting is often fuelled by ethnic rivalries, elsewhere in the young nation.

07 May 2018

Hope in short supply as fighting in South Sudan escalates ahead of decisive Addis peace talks

As our helicopter approaches Leer in northern South Sudan, all one can see is eerily empty, dry, sun-stricken land. The people we meet on the ground, however, have a different story to tell. It is one of human suffering on an unimaginable scale.

02 May 2018

Agreement to stop fighting in South Sudan needs to be upheld

The surge of violence in South Sudan’s Unity region “looks set to continue despite the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement that was signed last year,” according to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations mission in the country (UNMISS), David Shearer.

02 May 2018

South Sudan: aid workers freed, humanitarian deaths reach 100 since December 2013

Ten aid workers who were detained while on an assessment mission near Yei, Central Equatoria, have been freed. The humanitarian workers were held by an armed opposition group in South Sudan for more than five days, since 25 April.

30 Apr 2018

UNMISS PoC sites Update No.196

30 Apr 2018

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