[Montréal, Québec, Canada -9°C] Below is South Sudan Info’s first post that was not written in-house, rather it was taken from another source. It is the first article I read that discusses so eloquently the water conundrum in Sudan. —- Perspective: Sudan – Land of Water and Thirst; War and Peace by Dr. Paul J. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Darfur’
Challenges Facing Sudan’s April 2010 National Elections
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 20°C] In a previous post, I write about returning to Southern Sudan, how my first visit only increased my appetite for more. How little I knew about the place then and how much more I want to know about it now. The upcoming all-Sudan general elections that everyone-following-Sudan is talking about, would [...]
Two Million Southern Sudanese Returned Home Since 2005
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 23°C — même article en français] On June 15, Le Devoir included an Agence France-Presse article: “Sudan: Rebels Attack a Humanitarian Convoy“. The article wrote that Jikany Nuer tribesmen attacked a United Nations World Food Program convoy of 31 barges as it was transporting 700 tons of food aid. The humanitarian aid [...]
Three NGOs and one for-profit corporation allowed back to Darfur
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 22°C] Yesterday, June 11, 2009, John Holmes, the the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, announced that the Khartoum government is allowing 4 of the 13 non-governmental organizations (NGO) expelled from Darfur last March to return. The expulsion had serious repercussions in Darfur and Southern Sudan. In his statement, Holmes said that CARE, [...]
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
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 with [...]
Post-conflict development in southern Sudan: my first assignment
[MONTRÉAL] As you may have noticed by reading the About page that my first international assignement is in South Sudan where I will initiate my new direction in video reporting and documentary film. I’ve been asked over and over again, “Why Sudan?!” My immediate response — and the one which flows generously from my lips [...]
