Sports unite, they say. Football, the beautiful game and undisputed king as the most popular sport in the world, definitely does. The proof?
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And the girls are marching in, to a sports for peace tournament in Warrap State. Photos: Manyang Mayom/UNMISS
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A circle of participants at a workshop raising awareness on the ills of sexual gender-based violence. Photos: Peter Ring Ariik Kuol/UNMISS
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UNMISS peacekeepers have been making quite a difference for residents in Yei and Lasu, not least by organizing a medical camp where some 500 patients were treated.
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Schoolchildren took over, mostly, Radio Miraya on the Day of the African Child. Photos: Moses Pasi/UNMISS
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Senior police officers in Yambio pondering humanity, human rights and community policing at a workshop organized by UN Police. Photos: Martin Siba/UNMISS
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When there is no road, you make one as you move forward. A distance of 197 km to reach Pajut with humanitarian aid took four days.