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Reports from Eastern Equatoria say that more than 300 teenage girls were either raped, forced into marriage, or used as “girl child compensation” (given to another family as compensation for a crime committed by a member of…
UNIFIL peacekeepers have continued with donations in support of local communities’ fight against COVID-19 pandemic. In the past weeks, Italian peacekeepers donated two modern equipment for processing swabs to public hospital…
On 29 September 2020, David Shearer, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS, briefed media partners on the current situation in South Sudan. The briefing was held at the mission's headquarters…
Kinshasa, 30 September 2020 – Mr. Huang Xia, the UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region on 30 September 2020 met with Dr. Muyembe-Tamfum, the current Managing Director of the Congolese Institute for Biomedical Research…
Kinshasa, 30 September 2020 – While on official visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Special Envoy Huang Xia visited the National Institute for Biomedical Research. Built in 1975, the National Institute for…
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Agriculture | FAO launches radio training programmes for farmers, pastoralists and fisher folks In light of the current threat to public health posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to prevent the spread of the virus, FAO…
Kinshasa, 30 September 2020 - Mr. Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region and Mr. François Muamba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo met in Kinshasa on 30 September 2020. Mr. Muamba is a Congolese…
“My father threatened to kill me if I refuse to marry the man, he chose for me. I was afraid that reporting a parent to the police would be of no help. So, I hid from my family at a friend’s house. Only my mother knew where I…
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HERAT - Radio panellists sought the support of the country’s Ulema and community elders in calling for a reduction in violence and a long-term ceasefire during a series of radio programmes in the western provinces. Speaking…
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Mister President, Members of the Security Council, On behalf of the Secretary-General, I will devote this briefing to presenting his fifteenth report on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2334, covering the…
On 29 September 2020, David Shearer, the UN’s top envoy in South Sudan, said that tangible progress in the peace process across the country is a crucial issue, while speaking at a press conference. Other key issues touched…
“COVID-19 has slowed the peace process, but the pandemic is not entirely to blame. The peace agreement is limping along,” says David Shearer. “My concern about the delay is that it risks pushing elections out well beyond the…