"PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS"

Security Council members ask about civilian protection amid political shifts, as Darfur, Cyprus Mission Commanders brief on relations with host countries at 8552nd meeting.

Coinciding with the 17th annual Head of Military Component Conference, the Security Council heard from peacekeeping officials and Force Commanders on issues including the protection of civilians, women in peacekeeping, conduct, discipline and performance. UNIFEED

Fifty women representing various parts of South Sudan’s uniformed security sectors have met at a two-day workshop in South Sudan’s capital Juba, to chart a way forward for various ways of how they can uplift their careers while helping combat various forms of gender-based violence in the community. UNMISS

Recruited in 2019 with the support of UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), 150 new prison officers and assistants are receiving training at the National School of Magistracy (ENAM) in Bangui. MINUSCA

United Nations Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) for Africa Bintou Keita a five-day working visit to Somalia with a tour of Kismayo, the interim capital of Jubaland, to familiarise herself with developments taking place in the federal member state. UNSOM

Briefing Security Council on Burundi, Assistant Secretary-General voices concern over human rights, humanitarian situation at 8550th meeting.

Amid sweeping political change in Sudan, Peacekeeping chief says Security Council must carefully weigh options for drawdown, liquidation of Darfur mission at 8549th meeting.

UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said while the impact of the post-11 April events in Sudan on the prevailing situation in Darfur “has been so far moderate, the uncertainty of the negotiations’ outcome may have repercussions well beyond Khartoum and lead to escalation of violence.” UNIFEED

Eighty-nine inmates of a Central African Republic’s prison in Berberati, share small balls of cassava and the vegetable soup - their only meal of the day. MINUSCA

Informal comments to the media by Tiebile Drame, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, on the Situation in Mali.