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The fighting which broke out in Juba, at the beginning of July, between rival SPLA and SPLA-IO forces littered the capital with explosive hazards. Every year in South Sudan, many civilians are killed or injured by Explosive…
The illicit proliferation, excessive accumulation and misuse of weapons and ammunition pose a persistent problem for peace and security at the international, national and regional level causing the violent death of half a…
Peacekeepers of the UNOCI Bangladeshi Medical Contingent stand ready to receive UN medal awarded to them (Daloa, August 2016)
Elizabeth Spehar, former Director of DPA’s Policy and Mediation Division, arrived in Nicosia on 13 June to take up her new role as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping…
A ‘Music for Peace Competition’ opens this in Juba afternoon. The competition is part of a 10 day peace activism campaign that was launched by Civil Society yesterday. The initiative is aimed at using the power of music to…
SdeM: Good afternoon. Today we had a very short meeting of the Humanitarian Task Force. It lasted not more than 8 minutes. I decided to use my privilege as Chair to declare that there was no sense in have a humanitarian…
Adding the finishing touches to the signboard of the Koumassi Youth Center rehabilitated by UNOCI under its Quick Impact Projects Programme (Abidjan, June 2012)
At the end of their six months mission, fifty-six Officers, including six women of the medical Battalion of Bangladesh (BANMED 12) deployed within the United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI) received the medal of…
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The bodies formed to implement Somalia’s 2016 electoral process at the state and regional levels received an in-depth briefing on the process from the Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (FIEIT) during three days…
From the white, alluringly sandy beaches of the Fiji Islands, 29 men and women have travelled over 39 hours and some 16,300 kilometers to South Sudan to serve UNMISS. These men and women are Police, Corrections and Military…
The United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) regrets to announce the sudden death, on 11 August 2016, of Private Hassimi Amadou, a soldier of the Niger Battalion (NIGERBATT), in a medical institution in Abidjan…
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KANDAHAR - To help students know more about the work of the UN in Afghanistan, more than 100 students and their teachers participated in a UNAMA-backed event in the southern city Kandahar. “I learned a lot about the UN,” said…