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Kananga, 18 February 2012 – On Wednesday 15 February 2012 in Kananga, the United Nations inter-agency provincial committee, in the province of Kasai Occidental, presented the final report of the joint mission conducted in…
The top United Nations official in Libya visited East Libya on a three-day trip ending Monday to assess how the region's conflict-affected cities – some of them still littered with mines and unexploded missiles – are…
29 February 2012 - Officials of the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) lead by Stephen O'Brien, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, today visited Darfur to a…
29 February 2012- An ambush today by unknown gunmen on an African Union – United Nations Mission (UNAMID) patrol in South Darfur has left one peacekeeper dead and three injured. The incident, in which the peacekeepers…
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NEW YORK - Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today called for systematic and comprehensive strategies to empower women in rural areas to maximize their potential to combat extreme poverty and hunger, and help them…
23 February 2012 - For the first time since independence, a dozen representatives of local and independent media in Bor, Jonglei State, met to discuss how South Sudanese reporters had covered recent disturbances in their area…
On 29 February 2012, the thirty fourth meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM), chaired by the United Nations, was held in Gali. The meeting took place in businesslike atmosphere with all participants…
28 February 2012 - Striving to fill a technology gap and encourage reading, UNMISS handed over a computer centre and library today to a school in the Eastern Equatoria State capital Torit. The centre presented to Torit…
El Fasher—Disabled people of Darfur need full access to information, particularly from radio. That was the objective behind the provision of 30 wind-up and solar-operated radios to the El Fasher Association for the Disabled…
February 27, 2012 - In close cooperation with the ICRC and authorities of the Mission host governments, UNDOF assisted in three different humanitarian crossings in one operation. Five female mourners crossed back from the…
26 February 2012 – Drawing attention to the remarkable progress of Holy Trinity Peace Village in Koron, Eastern Equatoria State, Bishop Parid Taban drew together local and foreign dignitaries in a ceremony held there today…
25 February 2012- In the presence of thousands of residents, Lakes State Governor Chol Tong Mayay signed the Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan (2011) and was sworn in anew under its provisions today in…