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South Sudan’s national minister of roads and bridges last week commissioned a newly refurbished feeder road linking Western Bahr el Ghazal and Warrap States and also inaugurated works on another feeder road linking Kayango Boma in the north of Jur River County to Bessilia Payam in the west of Wau County in Western Bahr el Ghazal state.

The European Union Ambassador to South Sudan, Christian Bader, is in Warrap and Western Bahr el Ghazal states to visit beneficiaries of feeder road projects.

Securing Our Greener Future Source: Supplied Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:23 AM For the first time ever, the UN Development Programme Small Grants Programme in Solomon Islands handed over the certificate of afforestation project completion to its grantee, Isi Akson Theatre Art Trust (Inc). With the outstanding goal to plant over 5,000 trees, the reforestation project had received the financial support from the UNDP Small Grants Programme (SGP) back in 2013, to restore biodiversity and cre...

Electoral needs assessment for South Sudan: Secretary-General’s summary for the Security Council (S/2021/661) [EN/AR] Format In March 2021, in its resolution 2567 (2021), the Security Council requested the Secretary-General, in accordance with best practices, to conduct and provide to it, no later than 15 July 2021, a needs assessment, including security, procedural and logistical requirements to create an enabling environment for elections in South Sudan. Accordingly, throughout the month of...

Sunday, 18 July, 2021 - 06:45 FSO Safer in the Red Sea off Yemen. (File/AP) Aden - Ali Rabea The Yemeni government condemned the Houthi militias continued obstruction of the arrival of the UN maintenance team for assessing the situation of Yemens FSO Safer. Earlier, Houthis blamed the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for the failure of talks to repair the floating tanker, accusing it of delaying the process. Over the past ye...

/ GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Enormous amounts of construction materials are needed to repair and rebuild the thousands of homes and businesses that were damaged in Gaza in last months conflict between Israel and Hamas. But international donors, including the United States, that have pledged funds want to make sure those supplies dont end up in the hands of Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza. Israel said its airstrikes and artillery barrages targeted the groups military infrastruct...

The Editorial Office of the “Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan” magazine interviewed Ms. Freya von Groote, Director of the UNOPS Multi-country Office in Austria, who told about the key vectors of cooperation of UNOPS with Turkmenistan.

Deadly conflict in Mozambique’s ruby- and natural gas-rich northernmost coastal province feeds on a mix of colonial-era tensions, inequality and Islamist militancy. To tame the insurrection, Maputo needs to use force, with bespoke assistance from outside partners, and to carefully address underlying grievances.

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels to quickly allow U.N. experts to examine an oil tanker moored off the war-torn country’s coast loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil, warning there is a growing risk it could rupture or explode “causing an environmental, economic, maritime and…