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More than a thousand families fled Motti due to violence which erupted in 2016. Improved security makes them dream of returning home.
The people of Motti, a village in Eastern Equatoria, have been through a few dark years since 2016, when violence put an end to life as they knew it and forced them to flee.
UNMISS PoC sites Update No. 224
Peace, reconciliation and the safe return of the displaced were all high on the wish-lists of end-of-year holiday revellers in Bor.
“Our 2019 should begin with a new page of love for one another. I know, it is not easy to forgive, but if I can forgive the leaders of our country for making me a widow in 2013, why can’t we all forgive one another for the sake of our children?”
High-level military officers representing the two main parties of the peace agreement have held a trust-building meeting in Pajok, Eastern Equatoria.
Confidence and trust-building, the bedrock for the implementation of the negotiated Revitalized Peace Agreement, were the focus at a meeting between the South Sudan People's Defense Forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition in Pajok, located in the Eastern Equatoria
Peacekeepers in Torit spent part of their spare Christmas time visiting children staying at two different orphanages.
Peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan spent part of their spare Christmas time at two orphanages in Torit, bringing a bit of joy and gifts to the children staying there.
Clearing land from landmines and other potentially explosive objects is a painstakingly slow and risky process. UNMAS has just made an area outside Bor safe again.
The United Nations Mine Action Service has discovered and removed unexploded ordinances and mines five kilometres outside of Bor town, in the Thon-Awai area, in the Greater Jonglei region.
UNMISS PoC sites Update No.223
UNMISS PoC sites Update No.223 - 24 December 2018
UNMISS Condemns the Assault on a CTSAMVM Monitoring and Verification Team in the Luri Area
An agreement on how to manage cattle migrations affecting people living in a number of counties in the Eastern Equatoria region has been reached.
The people living in the Torit and Kapoeta regions have signed an agreement to advance peaceful coexistence and to regulate, control and manage cattle movements between the counties of Kidepo Valley, Riwoto, Ikotos, Chukudum, Torit East, Kimotong and Lopa.
The rights of the girl-child were discussed and affirmed at a cultural festival organized by UNMISS in Torit.
“Torit give us a chance! Marriage is between adults, not between an adult and a child. We are left without a future when our brothers are sent to school, but we are picked out to clean, cook and get married,” Mary Akur, a student at the Father Saturlino school, poured out.