UNMIS News

"One of my main motivations in becoming a nurse was the fact that this career gives the possibility to go anywhere and help people along the way. I have been a nurse for 6 years, worked in New Zealand, Australia and Canada…

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan believes that volunteerism is fundamental to the United Nations: "At the heart of volunteerism are the ideals of service and solidarity and the belief that together we can make the world…

Canadian volunteer Lucy Knight joined UNMIS in February 2010 and was seconded to UNICEF to work on the Sudan Information Campaign for Return and Reintegration (SICRR). The campaign targets the Southern Sudanese internally…

Currently 214 UNV volunteers from 70 countries are deployed throughout Sudan to directly support the Southern Sudan Referendum. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan…

The new Deputy Chief of the UNV Peace Division, Moraig Henderson, recently paid a visit to Juba to congratulate UN Volunteers for their support to the Southern Sudan self-determination referendum, a key milestone of the 2005…

I joined UNMIS in August 2009 as an Information Management Assistant with the Records Management and Archives (RMA) Unit in Khartoum. Prior to joining UNMIS, I was working with the UN International Criminal Tribunal for…

The International Year of Volunteers (IYV) was first celebrated in 2001. It played an important role in raising worldwide awareness about the contributions of volunteerism and strengthened approaches at the national level to…

15 June 2011 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today urged all parties involved to put an immediate end to fighting in the northern Sudanese state of Southern Kordofan. "The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the…

15 June 2011 - The UNMIS medical team in Upper Nile State organized a one-day medical camp today at Malakal National Prison, where they treated 121 inmates and 20 prison staff. "The treatment provided by UNMIS ... hospital is…

14 June 2011 - As fighting and violence continued to rage in Southern Kordofan, two jet fighters dropped 11 bombs in Kauda today, targeting an airfield near the UNMIS base in the area. The bombing campaign, using Antonov…

Peter Mokwe was in the wrong place at the wrong time when fighting broke out in Kadugli, Southern Kordofan State, on Monday afternoon. The young Dinka man and 25 members of his extended family left Madni town in Jezira State…

10 June 2011 - Leading members of the news media profession and senior officials of various Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) security services concluded a two-day roundtable conference today in the regional capital of Juba…