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David Shearer, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, briefs members of the Security Council on the situation in South Sudan.
The latest quarterly report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the situation in South Sudan and the activities of the United Nations in the country is now available.
On 5 September 2020, UNMISS handed over a brand-new police station to local police authorities in Terekeka, Central Equatoria. The police station was built under the mission's Quick Impact Projects programme.
Sandra Martinez from Colombia is an international UN Volunteer serving with UNMISS in Bor, South Sudan, as a Human Rights Officer.
On 9 September 2020, UNMISS hosted a forum to advance mediation and reconciliation across Jonglei and the greater Pibor administrative area. This comes in the wake of ongoing violence in recent months across the state that has led to some 600 people being killed and numerous others displaced.
On 4 September 2020, UNMISS handed over solar-powered radios to 500 families in Western Equatoria. The objective is to ensure that children have access to school lessons being broadcast twice daily on Radio Miraya, following extended closure of educational institutions across South Sudan due to COVID-19.
Political violence has reduced significantly across South Sudan in the wake of a peace deal and formation of a new Government. As a result, UNMISS has begun to progressively withdraw its troops and police from the PoC sites in Bor and Wau and will gradually do the same at other camps.
UNMISS and development partners recently rehabilitated and handed over a 16-room facility intended to serve as a fully equipped isolation centre for possible coronavirus cases to local authorities in Yambio, Western Equatoria.
