[Montréal, Québec, Canada 25°C] Last night, Montréal’s CKUT Radio show Amandla, a weekly show with news and analysis about Africa, there were two interviews about the coming independence of South Sudan. I spoke with CHF‘s Munish Persaud to get an idea of what it was like on the ground in southern Sudan. He just returned from [...]
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Montréal June/July Exhibit of South Sudan Photos
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 17°C] Southern Sudan was a place I had not heard much about before my seven-week visit to the East African region of the continent’s largest country. It is a part of Sudan where over eight million people are now recovering from a 21-year civil war that ended six years ago after the [...]
Seven-Weeks in Southern Sudan Beckons a Return Visit
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 13°C] It has been just over three weeks since I returned to Montréal from ten weeks in East Africa, most of which were spent in Southern Sudan. I’ve been back long enough to discard the lag that fogs the spirit after flying between continents. Sufficient time has passed to deplete the novelty [...]
Sudanese-born Canadian May Fly Home on Friday (updated)
[Abyei Town, Abyei Transitional Area, Sudan 40°C] Abousfian Abdelrazik is a man from Montréal whose been living in ‘temporary safe haven’ in the Canadian Embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, since late April 2008. He has been in Sudan since March 2003, when he went to visit his mother. According to a timeline of his [...]
Adopted Marabou Stork in IOM compound
[Malualkon, Aweil, Southern Sudan 40°C] I arrive into the interior of Southern Sudan byde Haviland twin Otter 15-passenger plane. Here is it hot and dry. I travel with Martin, a Sudan Radio Service reporter based in Wau. We will collaborate on news gathering together during this trip and my visit to Abyei, later in the month.
