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Female officers in Torit feel empowered and ready for leadership roles after lots of training workshops.
Female officers of the organized forces in Torit are benefitting from the rapid empowerment through weekly capacity building workshops enhancing their professional standards. Last week’s main topic was “criminal investigation and prosecution”.
Hundreds of civilians have been displaced by intercommunal fighting in different areas of Jonglei.
UN peacekeepers have been deployed in a number of recently conflict-ridden areas in Jonglei, including Pibor, Gumuruk, Manyabol and Likwanguelei, to protect civilians from clashes between armed groups from different communities.
Briefing to the Security Council on South Sudan Special Representative of the Secretary-General David Shearer
Often when I brief the Security Council on South Sudan, the news is not encouraging.
However, today is different. There have been positive developments that have moved the country further along the road to sustainable peace.
UNMISS Force Commander Lieutenant General Shailesh Tinaikar listens to the concerns of residents of the recently conflict-stricken Tonj area.
Following recent intercommunal clashes in greater Tonj near Kuajok, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan is continuously patrolling the area and engaging in other activities to restore peaceful coexistence between feuding residents.
In between discussions on conflict mitigation, here in Bangasu district in Western Equatoria, one can do with stretching one's legs a bit.
Some eighty women’s representatives in the Bangasu district of Western Equatoria have boosted their conflict mitigation skills and their knowledge of human rights following a two-day workshop.
From now on, a significant portion of the electricity used at UN House in Juba will be generated by this farm of solar panels.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has inaugurated a new solar panel farm at one of its compounds in the capital Juba. The installation is expected to significantly reduce the peacekeeping mission’s use of noisy, expensive and excessively fuel-consuming generators.
Sergeant Adubofour-Poku engaging with children in Malakal's protection of civilians site.
It is a sweltering hot afternoon in the UN mission’s protection site in Malakal, South Sudan. Punishing weather notwithstanding, hundreds of people have gathered around the football pitch at the youth center.
Everyone was a winner when youth from villages surrounding Yambio got together for some wholesome football fun for peace.
With catchy chants like “Viva sport, viva sport - we need peace, we need peace to cultivate our land” thousands of young men and women from Yambio town and the nearby villages of Yabwa, Sawra and Li-Rangu showed up to participate in activities organised by the UN peacekeeping mission aimed at pro
People affected by a wildfire in Nzara County seeking shelter under a mango tree that escaped unscathed.
A wildfire has ravaged Nzara County in Western Equatoria, killing one person and leaving hundreds homeless. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has visited the area and can confirm that much humanitarian assistance is urgently needed.
Future animal health workers observing their Indian tutor in action.
Fifty-five community animal health workers have successfully completed a four-week training on livestock disease management. Indian peacekeepers based in Malakal provided the capacity building to the health workers with mostly four-legged clients.