The United Nations Mission in South Sudan expresses its sincere sympathy to the family and friends of journalist Christopher Allen, killed during fighting in the town of Kaya, near the border...
09 Aug 2017 - The Head of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has insisted that the mission maintains a “zero tolerance approach” to any attempts to militarize the camps for people displaced by conflict and that the camps remain civilian in nature.
David Shearer, who is also...
08 Aug 2017 - Ladies and Gentlemen
Good morning and welcome to the RWANBATT compound here at Tomping.
A number of you have reported over the weekend that the first company of Rwandan soldiers has arrived in Juba as part of the Regional Protection Force deployment.
I’m joined by Brigadier...
03 Aug 2017 - Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix: Thank you very much, and good afternoon all. I would like, first of all, to thank you for being here.
As explained, I spent three days in South Sudan. This was an opportunity to meet with His Excellency...
02 Aug 2017 - I had a very good meeting with His Excellency the President of the Republic of South Sudan. We had a discussion on the peace process on the different initiatives that are converging to helping bring peace back to South Sudan. We discussed about the security situation in its...
01 Aug 2017 - Thank you very much and good afternoon indeed we had a very good met with his Excellency the Vice President, It was a very tense meeting. On the security issues the Vice President explained the current evolution of the situation, but also the fighting in some parts of the...
01 Aug 2017 - We just had a meeting with His Excellency the Minister and his colleagues from the Government. We discussed different issue. We discussed about the security situation in South Sudan; we discussed about the peace process and how to advance efforts with a view to bring peace and...
Remarks to the press by Undersecretary-General Lacroix following a meeting with Foreign Minister Deng Alor at the Foreign Ministry in Juba.
01 Aug 2017 - I had a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency Deng Alor.He explained to me the evolution of the initiatives that are currently underway to advance peace in South Sudan, the importance of the IGAD initiative regarding the revitalization of the...