[Juba, Southern Sudan 34ºC] It’s my first day in Juba (Feb 26) and I start working right away. From Juba, I have a “story from the field” to write about Mine Risk Education (MRE). I’m picked up for a briefing meeting at the UNICEF offices. You can’t get in without a badge or an escort [...]
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Jetlagged in Nairobi
[Nairobi, Kenya 29°C] My Flight to Nairobi straddles three continents, 13 hours of flying time and oceans of sea water and desert sand. The initial 6-hour flight brought me in Amsterdam to languish three hours in the busy Schiphol Airport, before continuing on to Nairobi on another 7-hour flight. North America to Europe to Africa. [...]
A view of Juba
[MONTRÉAL] Yesterday, I found an interesting video by Jason Brooks. He produced it during a visit in Juba, in May 2007. The interview-based short film considers the effect the massive presence of international non governmental organizations (NGOs) has on the development of South Sudan: inflation, cultural differences, living conditions, priotiry development, etc.
The population of [...]
Recovery in a post-conflict South Sudan
[MONTRÉAL] Yesterday, I submitted an elaborate funding proposal to help finance a trip to South Sudan. The entire document fills 34 pages with: the themes I want to investigate, the contacts already established in Canada and South Sudan (and their letters of intent to collaborate), the objectives and expected results, the distribution strategies for the [...]
A new tradition of peace
[MONTRÉAL] A half-empty pint of double-fermented rye beer sits on the shaky table beside Ruszard Kapuscinki’s book, The Shadow of the Sun, which is described in the New York Times as “a marvel of humane, sorrowful and lucid observation” of Africa. It is a great read by a Polish journalist who was intimately familiar [...]
