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Sweating it at the secondary school national exam, a scene not seen in Malakal since the outbreak of armed conflict in 2013.
A school bell rings out in Malakal.
It is the first time since 2013 that this particular bell, which signals the start of the South Sudan school certificate exams, has been heard here.
Solar lamps, and an ambulance, were part of the renovation package as UNMISS peacekeepers handed over the Jonglei Health Institute in Bor to its administrators.
An incapacitated hospital is a sad sight. After five years out of service, it gives disgrace a face. Unless, of course, Indian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan comes to the rescue. Such has been the fortunate fate of the Jonglei Health Institute in Bor.
Limited or non-existent police presence in rural areas in South Sudan make it increasingly difficult to respond to critical security threats in these hard-to-access communities.
UNMISS PoC sites Update No.226
They live in the Twic area, and their capital is Mayen-Abun.
Following a series of consultations among residents of the Twic area in South Sudan’s northwestern Bahr El Ghazal region, it has been tentatively decided that Mayen-Abun will remain the capital.
Peace at last? After fighting each other for decades, the Rup and Pakam communities in the Lakes region have pledged to reconcile.
The two nomadic communities of Rup and Pakam in the Western Lakes region have negotiated and pledged to end decades of intercommunal violence of cattle raids and deadly revenge attacks.
UNMISS PoC sites Update No.225 - 8 January 2019
UNMISS PoC sites Update No.225
More than a thousand families fled Motti due to violence which erupted in 2016. Improved security makes them dream of returning home.
The people of Motti, a village in Eastern Equatoria, have been through a few dark years since 2016, when violence put an end to life as they knew it and forced them to flee.
UNMISS PoC sites Update No. 224
Peace, reconciliation and the safe return of the displaced were all high on the wish-lists of end-of-year holiday revellers in Bor.
“Our 2019 should begin with a new page of love for one another. I know, it is not easy to forgive, but if I can forgive the leaders of our country for making me a widow in 2013, why can’t we all forgive one another for the sake of our children?”