“Will They Protect Us For The Next 10 Years?” Challenges Faced by the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan

This report examines the mounting challenges that the UN faces in South Sudan in the context of the civil war. It focuses on the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, which remains one of the international community’s principal interventions in the country and has the critical capability to protect at least some of the people under threat in the short and medium term.