{"id":39496,"date":"2025-09-05T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=39496"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:23:19","slug":"unmiss-condemns-ambush-of-peacekeepers-in-wes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/unmiss-condemns-ambush-of-peacekeepers-in-wes\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMISS condemns ambush of Peacekeepers in WES"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39497\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/UNMESS-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/UNMESS-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/UNMESS.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The United Nation Mission In South Sudan during patrol (photo: Courtesy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>By Lodu William Odiya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has strongly condemned an ambush on its peacekeepers in Western Equatoria State on Wednesday 3 September, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press statement from the UNMISS,<em>\u00a0<\/em>the incident occurred while peacekeepers were on patrol between the towns of Tambura and Mapuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) condemns yesterday\u2019s ambush of its peacekeepers in Western Equatoria State by element of a local armed group, who subsequently seized a small cache of weapons and ammunition\u201d the statement partly read.<\/p>\n<p>UNMISS echoed that its peacekeepers are deployed to protect civilians in a region where security remains fragile, particularly in and around Tambura.<\/p>\n<p>The mission emphasized that armed groups must not target its personnel furthermore, the statement warned that any attack against peacekeepers may constitute a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the incident, UNMISS affirmed its commitment to continue conducting patrols across the country as part of its mandate to protect civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is a United Nations\u00a0peacekeeping\u00a0mission for\u00a0South Sudan, which became independent on 9 July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>UNMISS was established on 8 July 2011 by\u00a0United Nations Security Council Resolution 1996\u00a0(2011).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lodu William Odiya The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has strongly condemned an ambush on its peacekeepers in Western Equatoria State on Wednesday 3 September, 2025. According to a press statement from the UNMISS,\u00a0the incident occurred while peacekeepers were on patrol between the towns of Tambura and<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/unmiss-condemns-ambush-of-peacekeepers-in-wes\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-western-equatoria-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/UNMESS.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39498,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39496\/revisions\/39498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}