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David Shearer chats with an elder in Gogrial
The ongoing conflict in South Sudan is affecting food security in some of the country’s more “stable states,” the head of UN peacekeeping in South Sudan, UNMISS, has said.
Mr David Shearer greeting the leaders in Gorgrial
The authorities in Gogrial have been praised by the most senior UN official in South Sudan for closing seven road blocks in the state, a move which has facilitated both trade and enabled humanitarian access.
UNMISS and CTSAMM visit the location where six aid workers were killed in an ambush on Saturday 25 March.
A convoy of protection forces from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), together with members of the Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring Mechanism (CTSAMM) has visited the location where six aid workers were killed on Saturday 25 March, approximately 53 kilometre
UNMISS chief David Shearer and the mayor of Torit, Juliana Mamoi Choko, give a symbolical hand to the building of a Safe House for vulnerable civilians in need of protection.
Seven-year-old Nancy does not know it yet, but in five or six years’ time she will have to give up her home life and become the property of a family she has never met, all because her mother committed a crime.
Various components of UNMISS and humanitarian actors were involved in putting out fires and assisting affected internally displaced persons in the Bentiu PoC site.
Swift, well-coordinated actions by different components of UNMISS saw two separate outbreaks of fire in the Bentiu protection of civilians site being taken care of without any resulting deaths or injuries. The fires, occurring over the weekend, destroyed a total of 117 shelters.
Dr. Bny Agyiri is part of the Ghanaian Battalion (GHANBATT) based in Leer. So far, Dr. Agyiri has delivered 35 babies, with a 100 per cent survival rate, in an area with no other health facilities.
Ghanaian peacekeeping troops (GHANBATT) serving under the UN Mission in South Sudan are providing desperately needed medical services to the local population in Leer County in Southern Unity state.
UNMISS chief David Shearer strongly condemns the killing of six aid workers, calling it "utterly reprehensible".
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The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan, David Shearer has urged the South Sudanese government to investigate and apprehend the killers of six aid workers on Saturday.
The Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Eugene Owusu, strongly condemns the killing of six aid workers in an ambush on 25 March.
The Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Eugene Owusu, has strongly condemned the killing of six aid workers in an ambush on 25 March. The aid workers were travelling from Juba to Pibor.
Over thirty senior military officers from former armed groups in Western Equatoria have attended an UNMISS-led two-day training in Yambio on protection of children and vulnerable groups during armed conflict.