Press Releases

  • 2015 Transcripts
    02 Mar 2015 - Near Verbatim Transcript of Press Conference by Deputy SRSG (Political) Moustapha Soumare Juba, 16 July 2015
  • UNMISS SRSG Ellen Margrethe Loej visits Bor
    17 Feb 2015 - Juba, 17 February 2014: The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Ms. Ellen Margrethe Løj, visited Bor today. The visit was part of an effort to obtain firsthand knowledge of the situation on...
  • February 2015
    16 Feb 2015 -   16 February 2015 - Update 61...
  • UNMISS condemns killing of civilians in ambush in Western Bahr El Ghazal State
    27 Jan 2015 - Juba, 27 January 2015 - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) strongly condemns the killing of eleven civilians, five of them journalists, in a roadside ambush while travelling to Raja in Western Bahr El Ghazal State on Sunday, 25 January 2015.
  • UNMISS Chinese infantry peacekeepers to be based in Juba
    15 Jan 2015 - Juba, 15 January, 2015 - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is pleased to welcome the pending deployment of a Chinese infantry battalion which will be based and operating out of UNMISS Headquarters in Juba.
  • UNMISS documents killings of civilians in Bentiu and Bor in April 2014
    09 Jan 2015 - Juba, 9 January 2015 - The UNMISS Human Rights Division today issued a 33-page report concerning allegations that armed opposition forces killed hundreds of civilians on 15 April 2014 after they retook control of the Unity State capital of Bentiu from government troops. The...
  • UNMISS condemns the continued targeting of civilians in Bentiu
    19 Dec 2014 - Juba, 19 December 2014 - The Human Rights Division of the UN Mission in South Sudan has issued a report concerning allegations that opposition forces killed at least 11 civilians and committed other serious human rights abuses during an attack in the Unity State capital of...
  • UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for power-sharing agreement in South Sudan
    15 Dec 2014 - New York, 15 December 2014 - Today marks one year since conflict broke out in the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan. I am dismayed and saddened that the parties have yet to reach a comprehensive peace agreement.
  • UNMISS commemorates International Human Rights Day
    10 Dec 2014 - Juba, 10 December, 2014 - At a ceremony held in Juba today to commemorate International Human Rights Day, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Loej, read out UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Human Rights...
  • UNMISS launches destruction of weapons confiscated from internally displaced persons
    09 Dec 2014 - Juba, 9 December, 2014 - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan destroyed 25 firearms and hundreds of knives, machetes, and similar weapons confiscated from internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in its protection-of-civilians sites in Juba at a public event held today...

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