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Portugal has just sent its first contingent of police officers to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Eight United Nations police officers from Portugal, four women and four men, have recently joined the United Nations…
Senior South Sudanese prison officers received certificates after a week-long training on human rights, sexual gender-based violence and community policing. You are a prison officer and an inmate is trying to escape. What can…
Last month more than 200 child soldiers were released in Pibor. SPLA has recommitted to make its army child-free. Senior officers in the South Sudanese army (SPLA) have been meeting in Juba with a view to getting removed from…
Personal Envoy for Western Sahara visits the territory Laâyoune, 28 June 2018 The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, President Horst Köhler, arrived in Laâyoune on 28 June 2018. He was welcomed by…
Hundreds of colleagues and friends bid a final farewell to Lieutenant Commander Ashraf Siddiqui, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper killed in an ambush earlier this week. Colleagues and friends of fallen peacekeeper Lieutenant…
The G5, made up of representatives of the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union, the World Bank, the Economic Community of Central African States, France and the United States, condemns in the strongest terms…
Some 140 British peacekeepers have received UN medals for their dedicated work in South Sudan. Growing up, Lieutenant Nick Lytollis dreamed of becoming a world class vet. Unbeknownst to the animal kingdom, it missed out on…
Demonstration on the use of fire extinguisher by MONUSCO Security Officer for the police members assigned to prison’s security during a training organized by Justice Support Section. Photo MONUSCIO/Bilamekaso TCHAGBELE…
On Wednesday 27 June, a Rwandan Formed Police Unit consisting of 50 per cent women arrived in Juba. On Wednesday the United Nations Mission in South Sudan welcomed 144 Rwandan police officers to Juba. They make up the lion…
MONUSCO Force Commander awards UN Medals to Nepalese peacekeepers. Photo MONUSCO/Guy KAREMA Bunia, 25 June 2018 – MONUSCO Force Commander, Lieutenant-General E. R. Martins Filho presided over UN Award Ceremony in honor of…
MONUSCO raises political parties and civil society actors’ awareness of peaceful electoral process. Photo MONUCO/Paulin MUNANGA Lubumbashi, 22 June 2018 – Holding peaceful elections in Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami and Lualaba…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed for calm and restraint in the Mopti region of central Mali, where over 20 people are reported to have been killed in intercommunal clashes over the weekend. In a…