"PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS"

Following a meeting with the partners of the Central African Republic at the UN Headquarters on Friday, the UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said “we have a momentum” to rally around the implementation of the peace agreement. UNIFEED

Speakers urge peaceful settlement to conflict in Ukraine, underline support for sovereignty, territorial integrity of Crimea, Donbas region at 67th and 68th plenaries.

Speakers urge peaceful settlement to conflict in Ukraine, underline support for sovereignty, territorial integrity of Crimea, Donbas region at 67th and 68th plenaries.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko submitted a petition to UN chief Antonio Guterres signed by “thousands and thousands of Ukrainians” appealing for him to “press on Moscow to release the Ukrainian crew members” detained by Russia near the Kerch Strait in November of last year. UNIFEED

After fleeing fighting in their native Ngovu village and sheltering in a nearby United Nations Protection of Civilians Cite in Wau, South Sudan, Regina Peter and Mayige Lina James have now returned to their village, hoping the peace deal will allow them to rebuild their lives there. UNMISS

The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) launched Sunday (17 Feb) a three-year-long national strategy to enhance awareness of its key policy agendas and initiatives among the Somali people at a high-level donor’s conference in the national capital. UNSOM

Cross-border movements of displaced communities from South Sudan’s Yei area are raising concerns about the risk of the Ebola virus being transported across the border into South Sudan. Currently living in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some displaced people often crisscross the porous border in search of food from the homes they fled in Yei due to unrest. UNMISS

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Bunj, a small, yet busy town located in South Sudan’s Maban county came to a standstill when more than one hundred boda boda riders rode through its streets following a successful conclusion of a training workshop on road safety, conducted by the UN Mission in South Sudan’s Malakal field office. Boda boda, as the motorcycle taxi is commonly known, is the only and quickest means of transportation in the Maban area. UNMISS

Women of courage across the world have taken on the battle to change the belief that combat duty is a man’s field. Mina Thapa, a military peacekeeper from Nepal serving under the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), is challenging other women across the world to believe in themselves and their abilities. UNMISS