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Environmental Engineer Liudmyla Odud: “Volunteering is unity and compassion to overcome global challenges, not least climate change”
Liudmyla Odud, a UN Volunteer and Environmental Engineer serving with UNMISS, combines compassion and expertise to tackle a global issue, one step at a time. Sharing skills and knowledge with people around the world gives…
MESSAGE ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - 5 June 2023
This World Environment Day is a call to beat plastic pollution. Every year, over 400 million tons of plastic is produced worldwide – one third of which is used just once. Every day, the equivalent of over 2000 garbage trucks…
Solar powered installations handed over by UNMISS aim to energize justice actors
Justice actors in the Greater Bahr El Ghazal region should be able to speed up court proceedings, thanks to a green energy handover by UNMISS that will help combat frequent power outages in court houses through solar-powered…
Returns and reintegration get a boost through UNMISS capacity building initiative
UNMISS organized a training managing the return and reintegration process for local stakeholders in Eastern Equatoria. Photo by Okello James/UNMISS. EASTERN EQUATORIA - As South Sudan looks forward to holding its first ever…
MINURSO CELEBRATES NATIONAL DAY OF SWEDEN
On 06 June, MINURSO celebrated Sweden’s National Day by raising the national flag at the Mission headquarters in Laayoune next to the UN flag. On this day, Sweden commemorates the election of King Gustav Vasa on 6 June 1523…
MINURSO celebrates World Environment Day
On 5 June, MINURSO celebrated World Environment Day. This year’s theme for the day is “Beat Plastic Pollution”. The event was attended by MINURSO civilian and military personnel and presided over by SRSG and Head of the…
Following the destruction wrought by the Tambura conflict, hope returns to Nabanga community, thanks to UNMISS
Two new facilities—a primary school and a health center—have brought joy to communities in a remote village in Western Equatoria. Photo by Phillip Mbugo/UNMISS WESTERN EQUATORIA – Until recently, Jacklin Taban Mathew, a 15…
2023 UN Youth Assembly participants are here – and ready for more
“The biggest problem is that young people are not included in the decision-making, in politics, and have no right to express their opinions, especially in small communities,” according to Anja Matović. Matović was one of the…
Peaceful coexistence between displaced persons and host communities focus of UNMISS workshop
An UNMISS workshop aimed at promoting social cohesion between internally displaced persons and host communities in Western Equatoria. Photo by Martin Siba/UNMISS. WESTERN EQUATORIA – Two years ago, surging conflict in the…
UNIFIL’s statement on tragic car accident on July 28, 2023
Today, Friday, July 28, in the early afternoon, a tragic car accident took place in the vicinity of Al Duhayra in southern Lebanon involving a UNIFIL peacekeeping vehicle and a civilian car, resulting in a collision between…