About
How did it start?
illustration by M.-C. Demers
David Widgington started this SouthSudanInfo blog project to inform himself about post-war Southern Sudan. What happens after peace agreements are signed and opposing armies retreat to their barracks? When do refugees return home, how do they make the journey and to where do they return after a lengthy absence? How are rebel armies disarmed, demobilized and reintegrated into civilian life? What is the role of the ‘international community’ in helping implement the peace agreement? How does a rebel movement make the transition to official government of a semi-autonomous region the size of France?
David didn’t know much about the region and visited Southern Sudan in March/April 2009. He acquired first-hand information to fill the void left by the media that seemed uninterested in the place since 2005, when the 21-year civil war ended and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed.
He began to blog about his trip on BurningBillboard.org but has since created this South Sudan-dedicated blog to centralize his own information resources, links and up-to-date RSS feeds and to make it available to anyone interested in Southern Sudan.
I am working on a documentary film script about the peace process in South Sudan and expect to return in March 2010, just before the first national elections in twenty years, scheduled for April 9-21.
David was publisher af Cumulus Press for 10 years (1998-2008) before trading the print media for audio and video as a documentary filmmaker and mobile journalist (MoJo). He was a founding member of the video collective Les Lucioles, a hyperactive group that produced and screened more than 250 video short over its five-year existence.
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