Peacekeeping News

Arrival of new DFC in MINURSO On Monday 16 September 2019 Brigadier-General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu (Gha. Ar.) arrived in MINURSO to take up the position of Deputy Force Commander as a replacement of the outgoing…

From 1-3 October 2019, UNFICYP’s Police Component, in collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Police Division’s Standing Police Capacity (SPC) of the United…

Safeguarding the environment became a shared language for young environmentalists from different communities across Kosovo, at the first UNMIK-sponsored multiethnic eco camp. In a picturesque spot in the Sharr mountains, 30…

NEAR VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT MEDIA BRIEFING BY THE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND HEAD OF THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN, MR. DAVID SHEARERWednesday, 02 October 2019

Bamako, 2 October 2019 - The United Nations Integrated Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) is dismayed by the toll of the simultaneous terrorist attacks on a Malian G5 Sahel unit position in Boulkessi and…

At a hotel in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, small groups of men and women – in dozens – gather around conference tables. “The people know that the peace agreement has been signed, but they do not know what the peace…

Since its formation in 2013, South Sudan’s main opposition force, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-iO), has wanted to cultivate a stronger professional culture amongst its troops, making more efforts to…

The 3rd Division of the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces in the Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal region has reiterated its commitment to protect and respect the rights of children. “We should not use children in conflict, because…

Following a rash of enigmatic livestock deaths earlier this September, local authorities in the Fashoda and Central Upper Nile regions have turned to the bovine expertise of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)…

Following days of intensifying protests in Haiti, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday the UN was “concerned by reports of violence and arson” across the country. At the dailypress briefing in New York, he told…

Last week, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) conducted a joint verification mission to the Ngo-Halima base of South Sudan’s main opposition army to identify and remove soldiers from within their ranks. “I was…

At the tender age of ten, Captain Leonie Niyonsaba was admitted to hospital in her home country Rwanda. She remembers being so well cared for that she decided to become a doctor. “But that was long after I had already made up…