UNMISS

Late 2023 saw a surge in intercommunal conflict in parts of South Sudan, resulting in 862 instances of death, injury, abduction and conflict-related sexual violence, according to a United Nations peacekeeping mission. The U.N. Mission in…

ADF STAFF Violence between rival communities has a long history in South Sudan, but the past year has seen a worrying rise in attacks that observers fear could become a wider crisis. More than 150 people died and 165 were injured as a…

Defenceweb Four United Nations peacekeeping missions in Africa are working to prevent and stop disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining mission credibility. MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), MINUSCA in the…

ADF STAFF Recent research shows a dramatic rise over the past year in misinformation generated by artificial intelligence and presented as authentic news that, experts say, puts at risk international peacekeeping operations in Africa. At…

ADF STAFF Rising intercommunal violence and a war in neighboring Sudan threaten South Sudan’s fragile five-year peace deal, experts say. Against this backdrop, the Advocacy Unit of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in…

U.N. MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN Chief Inspector Doreen Mazuba Malambo of Zambia believes in a simple motto: “When you teach a woman, you teach a nation.” She has brought that wisdom to more than a decade of service in peacekeeping…