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Since January, the Central African National Police and MINUSCA have established advanced police stations in the Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Bambari, Central CAR, that have facilitated the filing of complaints to fight against impunity. MINUSCA

The Security Council today (10 April) voted to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) with 13 votes in favour and two abstentions from member states that objected the use of chapter seven of the United Nations Charter. UNIFEED

Highlighting an overall stable environment in Haiti, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, told the Security Council today that the UN Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH’s) main objective “is to build on the achievements of MINUSTAH and is tied to the United Nations overarching goal of consolidating stability and security in the country to facilitate Haiti’s path to longer-term development.” UNIFEED

Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra of Peru said Security Council members “had the opportunity to express our grave concern over what is happening in Gaza” during consultations, but noted that a draft press statement could not be adopted due to the objections of a member state. UNIFEED

Hundreds of displaced people at a Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Bor gathered to meet the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General, David Shearer, who is on a day-long visit to hear from the community and meet local leaders. UNMISS

Since armed conflict divided eastern Ukraine back in 2014, almost 1.3 million pensioners have found themselves caught in the middle, living in territory now outside of government control but dependent on state institutions for their hard-earned retirement pensions. To get their pensions, the old and frail are forced repeatedly to make a difficult, costly and dangerous journey across the “line of contact”. UNHCR

A two-day seminar kicked off in South Sudan’s capital Juba, with participants hearing that guns must first fall silent as to enable a safe, voluntary, and dignified return of displaced people to their homes. UNMISS

Following his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last week, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, briefed the Security Council on the situation of the 4.5 million people displaced in the DRC. UNIFEED / FILE

The Special Representative of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said the situation in the region was “not the same” as it was in 2003 adding that there was a “general absence of war in Darfur.” UNIFEED

During his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock traveled to Kalemie in the south-eastern province of Tanganyka where he visited the Katanika displacement site and spoke with some of the over 13,000 people who live there. OCHA