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UN police officer assisting women at the Yei Road checkpoint with cooking ahead of a community gathering with South Sudan police.
Internally displaced persons, residents of neighbouring communities, police and military representing both South Sudan and the UN peacekeeping mission: all were there, at the Yei Road checkpoint on the outskirts of Juba. Why?
Farmers and pastoralists in Tonj South in Warrap State gathered to find solutions to the problems associated with the seasonal cattle migration.
Dry season in South Sudan means that a large number of herders and their thousands of cattle migrate in search of water and new pastures.
UNMISS peacekeepers from Rwanda and Sri Lanka are currently providing on-ground and aviation support, respectively, to colleagues at MINUSCA in the Central African Republic to ensure electoral and democratic processes continue in a peaceful manner.
“As peace operations worldwide, we’re operationally and, at times, geographically, connected to each other,” says Lieutenant-General Shailesh Tinaikar, UNMISS Force Commander.
UNMISS peacekeepers from Ghana go beyond the mission's mandate to give emergency life-saving aid to an injured man in Mir Mir and evacuate him to Bentiu for medical attention.
“We were on an air patrol to meet with local communities in Mir Mir, a village in the Unity region, following reports of conflict in the area,” recalls Lieutenant-Colonel R.K. Sagoe, Commanding Officer of a battalion of UNMISS peacekeeper from Ghana.
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities, and their human rights, were celebrated by playing wheelchair basketball in Juba.
Victoria Alex travelled five kilometers in a taxi from Gudele 2 on the city’s outskirts to participate in a game of wheelchair basketball at the Nimra Talata Stadium in the capital Juba.
A man on a bike on a mission: raising awareness on COVID-19 in remote Ibba County, in several languages.
At long last, a patrol team of peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan managed to navigate the rough road to Ibba County in Western Equatoria State.
End-of-year holiday season at UN House, Juba.
JUBA, 23 December 2020
Many patients in Achong-Chong showed up when UNMISS peacekeepers handed over medications. They also dropped of educational material at a school in the area.
Bangladeshi peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan have handed over an assortment of medicines and scholastic materials to citizens in the rural area of Achong-Chong in Western Bahr-el-Ghazal State.
The former governors Philip Aguer and David Yau Yau recently visited Bor to spread a message of reconciliation and social cohesion.
Two former governors of the now defunct Jonglei and Boma States, Philip Aguer and David Yau Yau respectively, came to Bor to say farewell to the peacekeeping mission’s Head of Field Office, Deborah Schein, who will retire at the end of the year and as private citizens used the visit t
Corrections officers in Eastern Equatoria State learning more about the rights of inmates and how to facilitate their re-entry into society once they are released.
Prison officers at the Eastern Equatoria Prisons Headquarters in Torit have received training on protecting the human rights of inmates.