Photo:Following the recent upsurge in fighting in Melut, Upper Nile State, South Sudan, UN peacekeepers are protecting displaced civilians on its base and in this area adjacent to the compound.
Politics
8 April 2017
The United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process today called for Palestinian unity amid concerns over local pay cuts.
7 April 2017
Photo:On 13 February 2017, first-grade students in eastern Ukraine, including 6-year-old Sasha (in red sweater), participate in a drill to practice their response to a shelling.
Photo:In 1996 in Rwanda, wooden crosses mark the graves in a cemetery in the village of Nyanza in a rural area of Kigali, the capital. During the 1994 genocide, over 10,000 people were burned to death in Nyanza as they tried to escape towards Burundi.
Photo:Refugees cook a meal in Dadaab camp, Kenya.
7 April 2017
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today urged restraint to avoid any escalation of the situation in Syria, after the United States responded militarily to an alleged chemical weapons attack earlier this week.
6 April 2017
Photo:Wide view of the Security Council.
Photo:Senegalese peacekeepers from the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) Formed Police Unit (FPU) speak with Malians while they patrol outside Mamadou Konate Stadium during an event to promote peace among the youth.