UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki of Kenya as the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS). Lieutenant General Ondieki will replace Lieutenant General Yohannes Gebremeskel Tesfamariam of Ethiopia, who will complete his …

South Sudan’s transitional government has agreed on the release of prisoners of war from both sides of the more than two-year conflict, Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth said. Lueth announced the decision to reporters in the capital, Juba, on Friday, without specifying when the releases will take place nor the …

A 195-strong peacekeeping force left Changchun, capital of China’s Jilin Province, on Wednesday for a United Nations mission in Mali. The team is part of China’s fourth peacekeeping group consisting of 395 people to the country. The rest will arrive by May 26 to relieve the third group. The troops …