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During the rainy season in Kodok, a town located along the volatile West Bank in the Upper Nile region of South Sudan, it’s not unusual to see fish and crocodiles floating around far away from their home in the Nile.
UNMISS Protection of Civilian (PoC) sites Update No. 233
The two neighbouring communities of Tonj and Gok have agreed to establish a joint border court to arbitrate cases of inter-communal violence. The court, to be comprised of seven traditional chiefs, will have jurisdiction on thefts and killings related to cattle.
“South Sudan is doable. We are into the endgame now, and we need support to see this one through. It isn’t a thousand-year problem. It isn’t a hundred-year problem. It is a three to five-year problem, and then this goes away.”
Located on the shores of the River Nile, Terekeka was the venue for a meeting that would not have been possible just over six months ago.
“Peace is a process.”
UNMISS Tomping Site, Juba Conference Room – 27 March 2019
Juba, 29 March 2019 – The Government of Japan has contributed US $1,468,374 to the United NationsMine Action Service (UNMAS), for the mine action project “Enabling Humanitarian Operations and
Biel Chuol in an ecstatic embrace with his father at the Akobo airstrip after returning from the UN protection site in Bor on 8 November, 2018.
When civil war broke out in South Sudan, thousands of families fled their homes and sought sanctuary at the United Nations base in Wau.
Jubilant fans at the end of the game
Animated spectators cheered the players on, in the name of peace, as a tournament that has lit up Yei town for nearly two weeks came to an end on Sunday.