08 Mar 2017 - 8th March 2017 – To mark the International Women’s Day, celebrated globally on 8 March, hundreds of women, men and children, internally-displaced persons, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan - UNMISS, and other UN agencies and non-governmental organizations took part in...
03 Mar 2017 -
“South Sudan’s political leadership needs to support its own citizens, who are in desperate need across the country and cease hostilities,” the United Nations Special Representative to the Secretary-General for South Sudan, David Shearer, said today. ...
23 Feb 2017 - (Scroll down for audio version)
Improved security is essential to reinvigorating what has been called the bread basket of South Sudan, the head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer, has said.
Mr. Shearer was making his first field trip to the town of Yambio...
UN Secretary-General's opening remarks at joint press conference on humanitarian crises in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
23 Feb 2017 - The Secretary-General
Opening Remarks at Joint Press Conferencewith UNDP Administrator, Ms. Helen Clark; Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Stephen O’Brien; Ms. Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (by video conference); Ms. Carla Mucavi, Director of...
Press statement: Senior UN human rights official condemns the deplorable rights situation in South Sudan and calls for prompt establishment of a court to prosecute atrocity crimes.
17 Feb 2017 - JUBA/GENEVA/NEW YORK (17 February 2017)
At the end of a four-day visit to South Sudan, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for human rights, Andrew Gilmour, called for the rapid establishment of a hybrid court to prosecute atrocity crimes committed in the country.
“This is a...
UNMISS SRSG David Shearer describes situation of displaced people in Upper Nile region as “real problem”
16 Feb 2017 - Malakal, 16 February, 2017
Statement Attributable to the Office of the Spokesperson
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
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The head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer, has described the lack of information about the...
UNMISS SRSG returns from two-day field visit to Bentiu and Leer; Statement Attributable to the Office of the Spokesperson United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Juba, 9 February, 2017
09 Feb 2017 - Statement Attributable to the Office of the Spokesperson
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
Juba, 9 February, 2017
The head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer, returned to Juba on Thursday from a two-day field visit to Bentiu and Leer, two...
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