Forcible disarmament in South Sudan will not improve security
2008-06-03 17:25:00 In response to decades of armed violence and cattle rustling, the Government of South Sudan is planning a campaign to forcibly collect firearms from southern citizens.
By: Gun News
News: Five WFP drivers killed in past weeks
2008-04-13 21:39:00 Five truck drivers delivering food for the U.N. World Food Program have been attacked and killed in Sudan over the past three weeks.Four of the five were killed in southern Sudan and one was killed in the western Darfur region.In the latest attack, two WFP-contracted drivers were shot dead in southern Sudan on Monday after returning from delivering food supplies.Previously, three other WFP workers were killed in Sudan late March. (Full)Picture courtesy WFP
Rumble: Talks with a security guard
2008-04-11 23:25:00 A story from my friend Enrico, who works in Bor, South Sudan:I was leaving the UN compound heading to the office. The security guard who had just opened the gate for me, asked me for a lift into town since his shift was over. He hopped in.Even though the drive took just 10 minutes, but I felt obliged to keep a bit of a conversation going.Me: ?Have you received any security training??The guard: ?Yes!?Me: ?Can you give me an example??The guard: ?How to switch on the security lights??Me: ?What would you do if you saw a thief in our compound??The guard: It?s like when you hunt a wild animal: stalking and attacking?Me: ?What if he?s armed??The guard: ?I?m not allowed to use a gun myself, it?s against the rules, but I have the stick I use to kill the snakes at night!?Read more stories from Enrico about life in Sudan.Picture courtesy Ulrik Pedersen
IRIN film Sudan: From North to South - Sudan?s displaced head home - April
2008-04-01 12:16:00 Source: IRIN From North to South: Sudan’s displaced head home - April 2006 When Sudan’s warring factions signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in January 2005, millions of southerners displaced by the war started to plan their long journey home. But a stark reality awaits these people as they return to a region devoid of services and ...
Rumble: Water for the Toposa in South Sudan
2008-03-22 19:33:00 Meet the Toposa people. These traditional herdsmen live in a remote area on the shared borders of Uganda, Kenya and Sudan. Their tribe is called "Karamojong" in Uganda, "Turkana" in Kenya (an area stretching from the Rift Valley to Lokichoggio) and "Toposa" in Sudan (from Lokichoggio to Narus and Kapoeta, in the eastern Juba).They live the life as it once was. Clothing is optional in their "country". If they have a cloth, serves the whole village, used when travelling outside the community. Their life is centered in function of their cattle. Their cattle is their life. Traditional diet is cow blood mixed with a sort of cassava.The family and tribe is patrimonical. Toposa men take decisions on behalf of the family or tribes in meetings where women and children are kept at a distance while the men discuss the people?s affairs. Tradition has it that important matters are decided in the early hours of the morning before sunrise. Last year, the Toposa in South Sudan faced drought, cuttin...
Siege of South Sudan troops ends peacefully
2007-09-09 17:35:00 Siege of South Sudan troops ends peacefully
Rumble: Cyp in South Sudan
2007-06-20 08:49:00 Here is Cyp as we know him... As he describes it:"Using the WiFi coverage provided to the Rumbek/Sudan airport from the UNHAS office, we were in the waiting lounge in transit to Juba from Aweil. In the background the immigration building."I love this picture. It gives an excellent snapshot of Africa, our work in Africa: one of our senior telecoms engineers, working off WiFi in the field, sitting in an old tractor tyre, waiting for a plane to go from no-where to any-where.Tnx for the picture, Cyp! |
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