{"id":65615,"date":"2016-03-09T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/unmiss-srsg-ellen-margrethe-loj-visits-malakal\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:54:11","slug":"unmiss-srsg-ellen-margrethe-loj-visits-malakal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/unmiss-srsg-ellen-margrethe-loj-visits-malakal\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMISS SRSG Ellen Margrethe L\u00f8j Visits Malakal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> JUBA, South Sudan, March 8, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for South Sudan and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe L\u00f8j, visited Malakal today to assess the situation and to meet with stakeholders on the ground, including community leaders within the protection site and Malakal town.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>During her visit, the SRSG reiterated the UN\u2019s commitment to UNMISS\u2019 mandate to protect civilians.\u00a0\u201cI am here to see the situation on the ground and understand how best to move forward on all fronts (security, humanitarian assistance and inter-communal dialogue)\u201d stated the SRSG.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The SRSG visited the protection of civilian site and met with men and women from the elders, community leaders, and youth representative.\u00a0\u201cIt is important for me to meet with you\u00a0personally today to listen to your views\u201d the SRSG said during the meeting with representatives of the community. \u201cI urge all responsible parties to refrain from any actions or statements that escalate tensions, and to respect the rules governing UN protection sites \u2013 including no weapons inside protection sites\u201d. The SRSG told community representatives that \u201cUNMISS and partners will continue to engage with local authorities in Malakal to restore calm and resolve differences through dialogue.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SRSG L\u00f8j, also meet with the internally displaced persons (IDPs), in Malakal town, who left the POC site in February.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The SRSG held meetings with UNMISS military and police contingents, humanitarian partners and concluded internal meetings with an all staff Town hall.\u00a0Before returning to Malakal airport, SRSG L\u00f8j paid a courtesy call to the Governor of the newly created Eastern Nile State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA, South Sudan, March 8, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for South Sudan and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe L\u00f8j, visited Malakal today to assess the situation and to meet with stakeholders on the ground, including community leaders within the protection site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-65615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}