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A Senior Civil Affairs Officer from the United Nations in Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) called for an urgent healing and reconciliation process in the southern part of South Sudan’s Unity State, where gruesome attacks on communities in the area have resulted in deaths, beheadings, sexual violence, and abductions. UNMISS

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

UN Humanitarian Coordinator Sara Beysolow Nyanti led a high-level delegation to Malakal, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, to assess needs on the ground and to meet with people affected by ongoing violence and natural disasters. UNMISS

According to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Magwi’s resident farming community has been at the epicenter of conflict with semi-nomadic animal herders. UNMISS

The head of UN Mission in South Sudan Nicholas Haysom urged all parties, including non-signatories, to join the collective push for sustainable peace in the world’s youngest nation, as it faces surging subnational violence and a deepening humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by climate change and COVID-19. UNMISS

In South Sudan’s Upper Nile and the extreme north of Jonglei states, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) carried out a mine risk awareness session to educate vulnerable communities who are living under the threat of anti-personnel mines. UNMISS

County commissioners, members of state legislative assembly, community leaders, women and youth representatives from across Upper Nile in South Sudan came together in a workshop- a forum comprise of only five out of thirteen counties, to discuss key issues that trigger conflicts between the communities across these five counties. UNMISS

Marking the International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, UN mission in South Sudan gathered stakeholders who work tirelessly to create safe grounds for communities. UNMISS

UNMISS Deputy Chief and Resident Coordinator announced plans to modernize the cultivation scheme in Aweil, South Sudan. UNMISS

Peace and development cannot be achieved in isolation. That was the guiding principle behind UNMISS Deputy Special Representative Sara Beysolow Nyanti’s maiden visit to Torit, Eastern Equatoria. UNMISS