Editors of media outlets and members of civil society in the Central African Republic (CAR) were invited to an awareness-raising session on combating disinformation held in Bangui on 14-15 June. Disinformation and “fake news”…
UN Photos / Haidar Fahs UNIFIL Sector West Command and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) yesterday opened a newly renovated medical facility with UNIFIL support within the main LAF barracks in Tyre, south Lebanon. The facility…
And the girls are marching in, to a sports for peace tournament in Warrap State. Photos: Manyang Mayom/UNMISS Sports unite, they say. Football, the beautiful game and undisputed king as the most popular sport in the world…
Defense forces, soldiers from nearby countries and other security personnel have been fighting an “asymmetric war” against armed groups, sparking an “unprecedented humanitarian crisis”, the top UN official in the country told…
Lieutenant General Shailesh Tinaikar, UNMISS Force Commander, recently visited the temporary operating base in Koch, Unity State. Preventing conflict from breaking out or swiftly mitigating its effects on innocent civilians…
A circle of participants at a workshop raising awareness on the ills of sexual gender-based violence. Photos: Peter Ring Ariik Kuol/UNMISS A loud call for rule of law and an end to using physical force against women and other…
Nicholas Haysom, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for South Sudan and Head of UNMISS, has briefed the Security Council on the situation in the country. Photo: Gregorio Cunha/UNMISS Mr. President, Thank you for…
UNMISS peacekeepers have been making quite a difference for residents in Yei and Lasu, not least by organizing a medical camp where some 500 patients were treated. Residents in Lasu, a village bordering the Democratic…
UNMISS peacekeepers have been making quite a difference for residents in Yei and Lasu, not least by organizing a medical camp where some 500 patients were treated. Residents in Lasu, a village bordering the Democratic…
SG Oath of Office Mr. President of the General Assembly, Senhor Presidente da República Portuguesa, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, This is a solemn moment. I find myself experiencing a whirlwind of emotions and thoughts…
Khassim Diagne in Tchabi: "The hunt down of the ADF will now take a new turn with the arrival of additional FIB forces". Photo MONUSCO/mICHAEL aLI In response to the violence from armed groups in the Tchabi and Boga areas…
Schoolchildren took over, mostly, Radio Miraya on the Day of the African Child. Photos: Moses Pasi/UNMISS Early, and often forced, marriages are alarmingly common in South Sudan. What, then, could be a better way to mark the…