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Efforts by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to encourage dialogue between communities in Yei, Central Equatoria, and uniformed personnel are focused on building trust and confidence, and ultimately, to encourage voluntary returns. UNMISS

On World Water Day, flocks of paper origami hummingbirds arrive to “attend” the UN Water Conference in New York from 22-24 March, carrying the future generation’s resolve to turn the tide on the global water crisis. UNIFEED

The head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that Sudanese stakeholders “are closer than they have ever been to a settlement and the return to a civilian government.” UNIFEED

UNMISS peacekeepers from Nepal received the United Nations medal for their service in maintaining durable peace across South Sudan, at a time when subnational violence and displacement is rising. UNMISS

In an event, entitled “Equal in Music,” the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble, performed Felix Mendelssohn’s String Octet in E-flat major, Opus 20 at UN Headquarters. The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra was founded in 1999 by the Israeli conductor-pianist Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian author-scholar Edward Said. UNIFEED

A room attended by representatives from Civil Society Organizations working in South Sudan, listen to an electoral official from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), who explains various stages of electoral processes. UNMISS

On the last day of his visit to Cabo Verde, Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the Ocean Race Summit in Mindelo, saying that “ending the ocean emergency is a race we must win, and by working as one, it’s a race we can win.” UNIFEED

WHO Director-General marked today the end of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, four months after the first cases were reported, saying the country “was able to use proven public health tools to contain the outbreak.” WHO

More than 11,000 children have now been killed or maimed because of the conflict in Yemen, according to the United Nations Children's Fund – an average of four a day since the escalation of the conflict in 2015. UNICEF

General Assembly adopts over 100 texts of First, Sixth Committees tackling threats from nuclear weapons, international security, global law, transitional justice.