"PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS"

At Security Council debate, speakers call for end to indiscriminate use of improvised explosive devices presidential statement urges Including mine action in ceasefire, peace agreements.

“The peace process remains fragile and there is still much to be done,” the UN top official in South Sudan David Shearer, said in a press conference on Wednesday, a day before leaving the role of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country. UNMISS

The Long-Range Reconnaissance Task Group of MINUSMA British contingent has carried out a continuous physical presence for 28 days from Gao to Tassiga, on a mission to protect civilians in this area, which has seen numerous security incidents. MINUSMA

Many areas in Western Equatoria State, South Sudan, have been unreachable during the rainy season, but the UN Mission through its Bangladeshi engineering battalion are now rehabilitating the road from Yambio to Mundri. UNMISS

As Mali faces major security, human rights obstacles, stronger response needed to end terrorism, violent extremism in Sahel, peacekeeping chief tells Security Council.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned “in the strongest terms” an attack on peacekeepers in Mali in which four Chadian peacekeepers were killed and 34 others were injured, according to a spokesperson. UNIFEED

Faustin-Archange Touadéra officially begun his second term as President of Central African Republic after his election victory was confirmed by the country's Constitutional Court. MINUSCA

In his first briefing to the Security Council since his recent assignment, UN Special Envoy for Libya Ján Kubiš said developments in the country “represent a trend and momentum that must not be lost.” UNIFEED

The Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Deborah Lyons, told the Security Council that “both the peace process and any peace agreement must reflect the Afghan population of today,” and noted that “half of the population of Afghanistan was born after the signing of the Bonn Agreement in 2001.” UNIFEED

A shocking number of civilians – some three thousand -- were killed in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last year, UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet told the Human Rights Council in Geneva today. UNTV CH