Internally displaced persons, residents of neighbouring communities, police and military representing both South Sudan and the UN peacekeeping mission: all were there, at the Yei Road checkpoint on the outskirts of Juba. Why?
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UN police officer assisting women at the Yei Road checkpoint with cooking ahead of a community gathering with South Sudan police.

UNMISS peacekeepers from Rwanda and Sri Lanka are currently providing on-ground and aviation support, respectively, to colleagues at MINUSCA in the Central African Republic to ensure electoral and democratic processes continue in a peaceful manner.

UNMISS peacekeepers from Ghana go beyond the mission's mandate to give emergency life-saving aid to an injured man in Mir Mir and evacuate him to Bentiu for medical attention.

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities, and their human rights, were celebrated by playing wheelchair basketball in Juba.

Many patients in Achong-Chong showed up when UNMISS peacekeepers handed over medications. They also dropped of educational material at a school in the area.

The former governors Philip Aguer and David Yau Yau recently visited Bor to spread a message of reconciliation and social cohesion.