[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 [...]
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Video: Immunization in Lurcuk Village, Tonj North, South Sudan
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -1°C] I visited Southern Sudan March/April 2009. It seems like such a long time ago. Reviewing the video footage and photographs I took during my visit, brings me back. Below is my latest video montage of a particular day: March 20, 2009. This is the day I joined a team of World [...]
Travel Health: Fourth and Final Visit for Vaccination Booster Shots (for a while)
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 26°C] This morning I cycled to the Clinique Santé-voyage for a fourth immunization visit. During my first visit on January 13 of this year, I received many vaccinations: polio, Tetanus/Diphtheria, Hepatitis A (first of two shots), Hepatitis B (first of three shots), typhoid Fever and I also a tuberculin skin test (I [...]
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 [...]
Remnants of War in Southern Sudan
[Nairobi, Kenya 29°] A return to Nairobi after a heavy schedule across seven cities and countless villages throughout Southern Sudan leaves me tired and ready for a holiday in Tanzania. First a safari near Arusha, then a beachside break on the island of Zanzibar. I haven’t had the opportunity to post in the last two [...]
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 [...]
ICC Arrest Warrant Repurcussions on Southern Sudan
[Warrap Town, Southern Sudan 45°C] Below is a podcast that was aired on Wednesday, March 25 on Amandla, a weekly Africa news and issues radio show on Montréal’s CKUT 90.3 FM.
ICC Arrest Warrant Repurcussions on Southern Sudan [5:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup
Immunization in Lurcuk Village, Tonj North County, Southern Sudan
[Warrap Town, Southern Sudan 43°C] Eight of us climb into the Land Cruiser and leave the World Vision compound at around 11h00. We drive to the brick storage room, where refrigerators store vaccinations for the immunization program (funded by CIDA) that takes place in different villages every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Tonj North County. [...]
What to Bring: A Mobile Journalist (MoJo) in Southern Sudan
[Warrap Town, Southern Sudan 38°C] When I started BurningBillboard.org, I began work as a mobile journalist. ‘MoJo’ for short because it sounds cool. You know, “MoJo Rising” à la Jim Morrison. A MoJo by definition must be autonomous and self-sustained, able to gather information, edit it and forward it for publication or broadcast; from anywhere, [...]
Miscellaneous photos from Northern Bahr el-Ghazal
[Malual Kon, Bahr el-Ghazal, Southern Sudan 42°C] Tomorrow morning, I leave Northern Bahr el-Ghazal and head south to Tonj county in Warrap State. Apparantly a more remote part of Southern Sudan. As I leave, I leave you here with a selection of photographs of places I’ve visited and people I’ve met while in the area. [...]
