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Essay winner in Rumbek: “Women may be the only hope left to bring peace to South Sudan”
As she was receiving her award as the winner of the UNMISS essay writing competition in Lakes region, 16-year-old Khana Kockedhie Magel said that women can bring lasting peace in South Sudan - if they are given the chance to do so.
Patients and staff at Kiir Mayardit Women's Hospital in Rumbek rejoiced in receiving food and non-food donations from UNMISS staff. Photo: UNMISS/Eric Kanalstein
Aping Kau, 20, cradles her baby boy born in the early morning hours of Saturday 20 April.
“This is my first child,” says Aping. “I am still waiting for my husband to come and give our son a name.”
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita and UNMISS Chief David Shearer addressing the media at a press conference in Juba on 19 April 2018.
I am concluding a four-day visit in South Sudan during which I had the opportunity to meet with senior Government officials including His Excellency, the First Vice President, Taban Deng Gai, and a delegation of Cabinet Ministers led by the Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Martin Elia Lomoro.
Laat Luka and Daniel Deng Joseph in Rumbek belong to different ethnic groups but have become friends forever. Photo: UNMISS/Eric Kanalstein
Students at Abukloi Secondary School in Rumbek, in the Western Lakes region of South Sudan have formed Peace and Human Rights clubs, calling for peace and an end to violence perpetuated by ethnic divisions. Their friendship efforts at school have so far have paid off spectacularly well.
Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita wrapped up her four-day visit to South Sudan with a press conference in Juba.
There is a need for “all South Sudanese stakeholders to engage genuinely and constructively in finding a political solution” to the country’s current crisis, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Bintou Keita, told reporters in the war-ravaged country’s capital,
Smiles were everywhere when UNMISS handed over a life-saving solar-powered lighting system to Juba Teaching Hospital.
Nurses, doctors and other staff at Juba Teaching Hospital are no longer afraid when they scurry between different wards, departments and life-saving interventions at night.
Mr. President of the General Assembly,Dear families of our colleagues who sacrificed their lives in the line of dutyExcellencies,Dear colleagues,Ladies and gentlemen,
As one of its quick impact projects, UNMISS is financing the construction of a dormitory at Rumbek National Secondary School. Photo: UNMISS/Eric Kanalstein
For the young women of Rumbek, education is a lifeline.
Without the engaging company of Radio Miraya's programming travelling on the roads in Eastern Lakes is likely to feel rather cumbersome.
During a six-day-long patrol, staff members of the UN Mission in South Sudan were told by communities in Yirol and Mingkaman in the Eastern Lakes area that they want to be able to listen to the news and other programmes aired by Radio Miraya, the peacekeeping mission’s radio station in the countr
In the coming months, almost 1,000 children are expected to be released from different armed groups. Photo (UNMISS/Amanda Voisard) from a release ceremony in Yambio in February 2018.
On Tuesday 17 April, more than 200 children were released by armed groups in South Sudan. It was the second such event – in a series supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) that in the coming months will see almost 1,000 children released from the ranks of armed groups.