The theme of this year’s International Day of the Girl is based on the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. The slogan is: Girls’ Progress equals Goals’ Progress: What Counts for Girls.

Tomomi Inada, Japan’s Minister of Defence, today visited Juba. She met the Japanese engineering contingent of UNMISS, government officials and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) of UNMISS, Ellen Margrethe Loej. Ms.

The South Sudan Civil Society Alliance has approved the deployment of a regional protection force to South Sudan, reversing an earlier decision against its deployment.