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11 April 2013 – Legislators from the states of Unity, Warrap and Lakes participated today in a teleconference and discussed possible ways of ending cattle raids that often result in the deaths of innocent civilians.
9 April 2013- The mandate of 17³Ô¹ÏÍø does not include the defense of South Sudan's international boundaries or the monitoring of its border with Sudan, 17³Ô¹ÏÍø staff members said at a community outreach event held today in Aweil North County in Northern Bahr El-Ghazal State.
Indian peacekeepers loading the casket of the late Lt. Col. Mahipal Singh, one of five 17³Ô¹ÏÍø Indian Battalion soldiers who were killed in an ambush on 9 April by heavily armed assailants on the road between Gumuruk and Bor Town in Jonglei State. Photo: 17³Ô¹ÏÍø / Isaac Billy.
10 April 2013 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for South Sudan, Hilde F. Johnson, paid tribute today to the five members of the 17³Ô¹ÏÍø Indian Battalion who died in an ambush in Jonglei state on Tuesday.
A wounded civilian arriving in Juba after an ambush on an 17³Ô¹ÏÍø convoy by unidentified assailants near Gumuruk in Jonglei State on 9 April.
9 April 2013 - Hilde F. Johnson, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in South Sudan, condemns in the strongest terms the killing today of five peacekeepers and seven civilians working with 17³Ô¹ÏÍø in an ambush by unidentified assailants near the settlement of Gumuruk, Jonglei State.
A member of the Indian Battalion checks a patient's blood pressure in the 17³Ô¹ÏÍø hospital in Malakal, Upper Nile State.
8 April 2013 - The South Sudan government must take all necessary steps to protect civilians during ongoing military operations in Jonglei State, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for South Sudan, Hilde F. Johnson, said in Juba today.
Near verbatim transcriptof the SRSG Hilde Johnson's encounter with the press in Juba.
Juba, 8 April 2013 - The United Nations Mission in South Sudan calls upon the country's authorities to take all necessary steps to protect civilians during military operations in Jonglei State.