Peacekeeping news

UNIFIL’s Sector East Headquarters carried out the “East Angel” exercise last week in order to evaluate the reaction of its components during emergency situations requiring casualty evacuation. The exercise, carried out on 20…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Leila Zerrougui of Algeria as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of…

British peacekeepers train staff to boost service delivery at Bentiu hospital. Training delivered by UNMISS peacekeepers is helping boost staff capacity and improve service delivery at the Bentiu State Hospital. That’s the…

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has strongly denounced the terrorist bombing earlier Thursday of a Shi'a cultural centre in Kabul, calling the “targeted attack” on civilians yet another despicable…

The United Nations and the diplomatic community have condemned the attack on the Tabyan Cultural Center and a media outlet in Kabul which caused hundreds of civilian casualties on Thursday. Expressing his solidarity with the…

Thousands of revellers in Bor celebrated Christmas with processions both in town and within the UNMISS protection of civilians site. Thousands of people marched in processions to celebrate Christmas in Bor Town and in the…

Photo by Amin Ismail, UNAMID. EL FASHER – Some 50 displaced women participated in a UNAMID-supported economic empowerment and peace event in El Fasher, North Darfur recently. Run as part of the ‘Darfur Women Talking Peace’…

26 December 2017, Presidential Runoff ElectionA voters casting his ballot in a voter precinct. ©UNMIL Photo: Shpend Berbatovci Liberians are voting for the Presidential runoff election, 26 December 2017

Displaced South Sudanese in an UNMISS Protection of Civilians site in Juba celebrate Christmas mass amid fragile hope of peace. Photo: UNMISS/Nektarios Markogiannis People who have sought sanctuary in the UN protection site…

Tragedy spurs cattle keeper’s passion for peace at migration conference in South Sudan Bashir Hamid is a cattle keeper from Misseriya, a nomadic community living in the border zone between Sudan and South Sudan. In the dry…

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar (An Taoiseach) of The Republic of Ireland today visited UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura as well as the main base of UNIFIL’s Irish Contingent in south-west Lebanon. UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force…

UNMISS Quick Impact Project helps boost education in the Gogrial area by gifting a secondary school two new classrooms and an office. The gifting of two new classrooms and an office by the United Nations Mission in South…