"MINE CLEARANCE"

Press Conference by Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Press briefing by General Michael Beary, the head of the UN Mission to Support the Agreement in Hudaydah.

Unanimously adopting resolution 2643 (2022), Security Council extends mandate of United Nations Mission to Support Hudaydah Agreement for one year.

Extending Yemen's truce has resulted in improved humanitarian conditions, reduced civilian casualties, Special Envoy tells Security Council.

While great progress has been made to remove all known landmines and other explosive remnants of war in South Sudan, some of the country’s communities are still endangered by their presence. Ilene Cohn, Acting Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service, UNMAS, recently visited one of them, Gondokoro near the capital Juba, as part of her assessment of mine action activities in the youngest nation of the world. UNMISS

In South Sudan’s Upper Nile and the extreme north of Jonglei states, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) carried out a mine risk awareness session to educate vulnerable communities who are living under the threat of anti-personnel mines. UNMISS

Marking the International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, UN mission in South Sudan gathered stakeholders who work tirelessly to create safe grounds for communities. UNMISS

On the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, the United Nations remembered how far the world has come in clearing the world of explosive remnants of war, but stressed that over 50 countries remain contaminated with these weapons. UNIFEED

Briefing by UNMAS Acting Director Ilene Cohn, Special Envoy for universalization of the anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention and Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Hashemite Court Prince Mired of Jordan, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations Guillermo Fernández de Soto, Deputy Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations David Hauri, Director of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines Hector Guerra, and IED survivor/photographer Giles Duley.

"We need to end the war in every form, and with these under the ground, there is still the possibility that people can be attacked, which means the war is still not over” said a UN spokesperson about landmines in South Sudan. UNMISS