Press Releases

[Near Verbatim] Juba - I welcome all of you to UNMISS as we gather to celebrate the life and the legacy of our late Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nicholas ‘Fink’ Haysom. Today we come together not only…

[Near Verbatim] Juba - It is a great honor for me to pay tribute, on behalf of the mission, to read the eulogy for our great friend, colleague and comrade, Nicholas ‘Fink’ Haysom. Fink, your life is far too vast to fit into…

Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, Just hours into the outbreak of the war in the Middle East, I warned that the fighting risked triggering a chain reaction that no one could control. More than three weeks on, the war is out…

LEER/YEI/JUBA - This month, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has continued its support for two mobile justice interventions led by the Judiciary of South Sudan and the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional…

UN Secretary-General appoints Ms. Daniela Kroslak of Germany as Head of the United Nations Support Office in Haiti (UNSOH)

JUBA, 19 March 2026 - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Nicholas (Fink) Haysom. Mr. Haysom was…

Last night’s violent escalation marks a further worrying deterioration in the situation between Lebanon and Israel. Heavy exchanges of fire, intensified air and ground activity, and increased presence of Israeli forces inside…

“Initial hopes that Lebanon would be spared from the fires burning across the region were dashed when Hizbullah launched an attack against Israel in the early hours of 2 March. In doing so, it spread the embers that have now…

UNAMA reiterates its call for de-escalation and an immediate ceasefire, and for parties to comply with their obligations under international

Good afternoon and thank you for being here. I have just returned from a 10-day visit to Haiti to assess the human rights situation in the country. I saw glimmers of hope: some territory liberated from gang control, a…