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As a part-time English-language newscaster for South Sudan Radio at its studios in the city of Wau, Emmanuel Ujang is thoroughly acquainted with the scope and penetration of modern mass media. But the 26-year-old native of…
A Sudanese women's non-governmental organization -- Widows, Orphans and People Living with HIV/Aids (WOPHA) – is one of 25 community-based bodies to win the coveted Red Ribbon Award for its work in reducing the spread and…
The joint South Sudan Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (SSDDRC) and integrated UN DDR team demobilized the last 29 of 3,675 ex-combatants in Rumbek, Lakes State, on 9 July. "The whole team were very…
The Malakal Southern Sudan Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Commission (SSDDRC) recently moved into a new nine-room office donated by UNMIS. During the handover ceremony on 12 July, UNMIS Human Rights Officer…
A professional basketball player who fled to Britain with his family during Sudan's civil war has returned home to rehabilitate a school in Udichi payam (township), Western Bahr El-Ghazal State. The 25-year-old former refugee…
To ensure full cooperation between Upper Nile State authorities and UNMIS in conducting Southern Sudan's upcoming referendum, representatives of the two bodies met in Malakal on 7 July. [Scheduled for 9 January 2011, the…
Hundreds of Juba's residents joined Radio Miraya at the Nyakuron Cultural Centre on 3 July to celebrate four years on the air. The day-long celebrations began with a friendly football match between Radio Miraya staff and a…
Maj. Rene Grigat's life in Sudan changed after he accidentally ran across Youth with a Mission School in Yei, Central Equatoria State, out patrolling with his colleagues one day. "We ... noticed the school and an unfinished…
In assisting contributors to Sudan's report for the UN Human Rights Council under the 2011 Universal Period Review, UNMIS Human Rights section and the Sudanese Advisory Council on Human Rights (ACHR) held a workshop in…
UNMIS Protection Unit held an awareness workshop on the Southern Sudan Child Act 2008 from the 22 to 24 June in Mundri West County, Western Equatoria State. Thirty-two participants, including chiefs, police, social workers…
Some 200 Southern Sudan Police Service (SSPS) anti-riot officers, including 50 women, graduated from a three-day referendum security training course in Malakal, Upper Nile State, on 1 July. Speaking during the ceremony, UN…
Seventy-two female officers from northern and southern Sudanese police forces as well as UN Police graduated from a 10-day course on sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) on 1 July at UNMIS headquarters in Khartoum…