"ROAD CONSTRUCTION"

Political leadership, funding critical for reducing vehicle fatalities, speakers stress, as General Assembly concludes global road safety high-level meeting.

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

Interactive dialogue to discuss the importance of road safety-related domestic and international finance for achieving the road safety-related Sustainable Development Goal targets and its broader positive impact on public health and the economy.

Thousands of hectares of restored Mangroves are changing the lives of local fishing communities in Senegal by helping them tackle and adapt to the climate change. IFAD

A new UN report warns that global progress against child labour has stalled for the first time since the last two decades. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to push millions more children into child labour unless urgent mitigation measures are taken. In Guatemala FAO works with partners to reduce child labour and rural poverty by promoting education and safe youth employment in agri-food systems. FAO

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

Ongoing intercommunal violence between ethnic groups in and around Jonglei, Central Equatoria has led to a renewed push for reconciliation and peace by state authorities and the United Nations peace operation in South Sudan, UNMISS. UNMISS

South Sudan’s peace process ‘linked to strength of international engagement’, Special Representative tells Security Council.

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) began a major road rehabilitation project in the country, 3200 kilometres of roads will be repaired in the coming months. UNMISS

With the rainy season fast approaching, Thai engineers from the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) are racing against time to repair one of country’s main road connecting cities Juba and Yei. Once the rains start, all works will have to stop. UNMISS