Peacekeeping News

Not happy. Several Aweil attending a workshop on human rights complained that their entitlements are ignored. “We, the women in Aweil, are not having even one percent of our rights being respected,” says the local female…

Back in business: A passenger aircraft at the newly rehabilitated Pibor airstrip A bottle of water retails at 200 South Sudanese pounds or SSP (just under $1) in Boma area’s Pibor town. But that is a smaller matter. To get…

Despite heavy rain and freezing temperature, UNIFIL Finnish peacekeepers operating under the Mission’s Force Commander’s Reserve participated in a coordinated exercise with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in the southern…

Lots of pieces of information about human rights principles and the revitalized peace agreement were handed out to opposition forces in the Kapoeta area. “We are working day and night to respect and promote human rights in…

UNIFIL Sector West Headquarters in Shamaa, south Lebanon, today organized an exhibition of handicrafts and Lebanese cuisine with the aim to promote women-run local businesses in the UN Mission’s area of operation. Around 13…

The UNSG's message for 2020 Against the backdrop of persistent inequality, rising hatred, “a world at war and a warming planet”; with climate change as “a long-term problem” and “a clear and present danger”; Secretary-General…

UN Secretary-General’s 2020 New Year’s Message From here at the United Nations, I join you in welcoming the New Year. We enter 2020 with uncertainty and insecurity all around. Persistent inequality and rising hatred. A…

Zalingei, 3 January 2020- The African Union – United Nations Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is deeply concerned by reports of intercommunal violence in West Darfur that left 65 people dead and approximately 54 injured…

Hey ho, off to joint training we go! Soldiers from government and opposition forces near Wau moving to training centres to initiate the formation of a unified army. “Today, all the forces and I are happy, because this ends…

Zalingei, 30 December 2019- UNAMID welcomes the framework agreement signed between the Transitional Government of Sudan and the Darfur armed movements (Darfur Track) during the peace talks in Juba, South Sudan, on 28 December…

Zalingei, 29 December 2019- On 27 December 2019, an estimate of hundreds of residents, as well as individuals in uniform, entered the former UNAMID Sector South Headquarters (Super Camp) in Nyala, South Darfur, by breaching…

Women dance at the Agoke Leprosy Centre in Wau “Being a leprosy patient, I was disowned by my own family, treated as an outcast and sent away from my village,” began Maget Viola, an inhabitant of Agoke Centre in Wau. “We are…