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UNMIS was working closely with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and National Congress Party (NCP) to determine types of assistance UNMIS would offer to support the upcoming referenda, according to a top UN…
As part of efforts to help strengthen security organs, UNMIS trained 100 local Warrap state police officers in various topics over the past four and a half months. Speaking at the graduation ceremony, held on 25 June in the…
Recognizing people who had been forced to flee their homelands and seek refuge elsewhere, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently held a series of events in Khartoum. Under the theme "home", the agency…
Women and children covered in white ash from burnt cow dung eagerly welcomed herds of cattle back into kraals (enclosure for livestock) at the Wundor Cattle Camp in Bor, Jonglei State, after a day's grazing. "These cows you…
Most Khartoum cabbies generally move people around the Sudanese capital on taxis, mini-buses and rickshaws. But some enterprising transportation professionals use donkeys to ferry their passengers and merchandise across…
Luna llena no me puedes decir si por algo el espera para mi amor hace mucho que lo ando buscando si lo ves dile que es... The Puerto Rican singer Elvis Crespo's peppy rendition of the song Luna Llena rent the evening air as…
Most young people in Sudan's greater Bahr El-Ghazal region are increasingly shunning traditional games, song and dance as their preferred means of relaxation. Like Mathiang Beny Til, they spend a large chunk of their leisure…
Women from across Sudan met at a Khartoum open day commemorating the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, and shared recommendations with UN leaders on 10 June. Women from across Sudan…
Fifty Southern Sudan Police Service (SSPS) officers were officially inducted into the region's first-ever Livestock Patrol Unit at a ceremony in the Jonglei State village of Malual Chaat on 7 June. Designed to combat chronic…
Women from all over Southern Sudan gathered in the regional capital of Juba for a one-day open peace forum on 9 June to identify the priorities, concern and needs of women within the context of United Nations Security Council…
Illiteracy, poverty and negative cultural and traditional practices are impeding the advancement of women and girls in Upper Nile State. Those were some of the conclusions that emerged from a one-day consultative workshop…
Pomp and circumstance with a dash of style marked the week-long celebrations of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers across Sudan. A five-kilometre peace walk kicked off the celebrations in the Southern Sudanese capital…