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Mary Nyalok, one of approximately 120,000 people seeking shelter at the UNMISS Protection of Civilian site in Bentiu. She wants peace so that she can return home.
Mother of three Mary Nyalok believes she is no different from the other 120,000 internally displaced people living in an UN-protected camp in Bentiu in South Sudan when she says that “if the guns are silent, I will go home.”
The youth advocacy group Ana Taban, here represented by Ayak Chjol Deng and Manasseh Mathing, has launched a campaign dubbed #Bloodshedfree2017, calling on the country’s leaders to stop the fighting and suffering.
A group of energetic and dynamic youth is demanding an end to bloodshed in 2017.
The youth advocacy group Ana Taban has launched a campaign dubbed #Bloodshedfree2017, calling on the country’s leaders to stop the fighting and suffering.
School children in the Bentiu Protection of Civilians site being educated about the risks of Explosive Remnants of War (ERWs).
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in collaboration with partners are educating school children in the UN Protection of Civilian (PoC) site on the risks of landmines and other Explosive Remnants of War (ERWs).
UN Security Council Condemns Fighting in South Sudan
The members of the Security Council strongly condemned continued fighting across South Sudan, particularly incidents in the Equatoria and Upper Nile regions of South Sudan and called on all parties to cease hostilities immediately. The members of the Security Council also condemned in the strong
UNMISS SRSG returns from two-day field visit to Bentiu and Leer; Statement Attributable to the Office of the Spokesperson United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Juba, 9 February, 2017
Statement Attributable to the Office of the Spokesperson
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
Juba, 9 February, 2017
With the support of UNMISS, the airstrip in Torit is currently being upgraded for year-round usage.
On Tuesday 7 February the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), in coordination with the government, began rehabilitation work at the airstrip in Torit.
Youth activist Riak Maker Mading and Anna Nimiriano, associate editor at the Juba Monitor newspaper, say lack of national unity breeds hate speech.
Youth activist and part-time teacher Riak Maker Mading says the people of South Sudan need to work on building a strong national identity to counter hate speech and restore the fractured social fabric.
UNMISS chief David Shearer calls on the people of South Sudan to promote peace and reconciliation. (Photo taken in Juba).
The Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan and Special Representative of the Secretary-General is continuing with his 2-day visit to the Unity area with a call for peace to allow displaced people to return to their homes. David Shearer visited the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site sheltering
Statement Attributable to the Office of the Spokesperson United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS): Upper Nile Operations worrying.
Fighting in the west bank of the River Nile in the north of South Sudan has reached what the head of the UN mission in the country (UNMISS), David Shearer has described as “worrying proportions.”