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Community performers celebrate their diversity and embrace unity at the International Day of Peace commemoration in Malakal.
UNMISS peacekeepers in Western Equatoria have intensified their patrolling efforts to protect civilians in communities like Bangasu, some 55 kilometers from Yambio. Photo: Denis Louro/UNMISS.
A County Commissioners’ Forum in Upper Nile State aimed to promote peace and strengthen cooperation between local authorities and their partners. Photo: Luka William Athiel/UNMISS.
The UN mission is dedicated to finding innovative ways to prevent conflict, ensure safe humanitarian aid, and advance peacebuilding across South Sudan. This includes the Indian Government deploying all-terrain vehicles to help peacekeepers navigate rugged conditions to reach vulnerable communities during the rainy season. Photo: Nektarios Markogiannis/UNMISS.
To help reduce tensions and improve livelihoods, UNMISS Indian peacekeepers are conducting veterinary camps in Jonglei State to treat diseases, provide preventive care and free medicines as well as building the capacity of community members to be animal health workers. Photo: Mach Samuel/UNMISS.
In Warrap State, abysmal, rain-drenched roads stopped patrolling peacekeepers serving with UNMISS from reaching their destination, but they did gather critical information – and repaired a broken Radio Miraya transmitter – before returning to base.
Eastern Equatoria State’s fourth Police Community Relations Committee has been established in Magwi. Like similar committees elsewhere, its purpose it to be a link between citizens and law enforcement agents. Photo: Matiisetso Mosala/UNMISS.
Following recurring clashes between farmers and cattle herders in Central Equatoria, UNMISS supported a forum where representatives from the two parties discussed and agreed on measures to put an end to their conflict.
In Pibor, UNMISS South Korean engineers built a 35-kilometer road connecting the town to nearby Bor and Akobo. As a result, the local market is booming, with traders actively selling locally produced goods like as maize, groundnuts, and sorghum. Photo: UNMISS.
