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UNMAS providing Mine Risk Education in Bentiu. Photo: UNMAS/Martine Perret
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In today’s world, conflicts are multiplying and increasingly interlinked.
Most disturbingly, many warring parties shamelessly target civilians and show a flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law.
UNMISS “Protection of Civilians” (PoC) Sites [i]
An integrated patrol unit of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan – UNMISS has concluded a three - day long duration patrol to Mapuordit, located approximately 76 km from Rumbek, the provincial capital of Lakes in Southern Sudan.
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.
Students taking part in the mine awareness song competition
David Shearer chats with an elder in Gogrial
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.