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JUBA (Reuters) -At least 20 people have died in fighting in a camp for displaced people in South Sudan, a medical aid group said on Friday. Tensions started rising last week when women from ...
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is a United Nations peacekeeping mission for South Sudan, which became independent on 9 July 2011. UNMISS [ 1 ] was established on 8 July 2011 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1996 (2011).
JUBA (Reuters) -Fighting between local groups in western South Sudan has killed at least 26 people, officials said on Tuesday, as the country's president and vice president called for an end to ...
Despite the request that the SPLA implement changes to avoid future attacks on UN personnel, [4] another UNMISS helicopter took gunfire on January 5, 2013 while on the ground at Bau, South Sudan. This craft was a Mil Mi-26 transport helicopter operated by the Russian firm UTair .
Current Missions Past Missions UN refugee camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. IDP camp in Sudan resulting from the Darfur conflict.. This is a list of United Nations peacekeeping missions since the United Nations was founded in 1945, organized by region, with the dates of deployment, the name of the related conflict, and the name of the UN operation.
Egypt - Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy stated that over the past few days Egypt "had paid close attention to the developments of the crisis in South Sudan, its security and humanity situation, valuing the stability of fraternal South Sudan and the strategic relations between both countries on governmental and non-governmental levels".
The resolution called for unimpeded access and full co-operation with UNMISS from all states. It demanded that the Lord's Resistance Army end attacks against civilians in South Sudan, and for an end to the use of child soldiers. South Sudan was urged to increase the participation of women in society and to reform the prison system.
Operation Trenton was the contribution of the United Kingdom in support of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). It was one of the largest UK operational deployments at the time, with over 300 military personnel committed to it, based within two UN locations in Malakal and Bentiu.