The United Nations security council has extended the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan until 30 November 2015, according to a draft resolution adopted by the council and linked below for download.

The security council maintained the primary mandate of its South Sudan mission is: "to protect civilians under threat of physical violence, irrespective of the source of such violence within its capacity and areas of deployment, with specific protection for women and children, including through the continued use of the Mission's Child Protection and Women Protection Advisers."

The security council also said that UNMISS will implement an "early warning strategy...to prepare for further potential attacks on United Nations personnel and facilities."

The early-warning strategy is to include "a coordinated approach to information gathering, monitoring, verification, early warning and dissemination, and response mechanisms, including response mechanisms."

UNMISS bases and personnel, at which some 120,000 civilians are currently sheltering, have repeatedly come under attack from armed groups. A peacekeeper was injured in Malakal, Upper Nile state earlier this week. Radio Tamazuj reported dozens of attacks on civilians in and around the Bentiu, Unity state base in April and May.

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UN peacekeeper injured in Malakal shooting (29 May)

Army incursions in or near UN 'protection site' in South Sudan (18 May)

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