[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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Juba’
Landmine Removal Frees Land for Agriculture
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -2°C] In a previous post from Juba, Southern Sudan, I wrote about a UNICEF managed and CIDA-funded Mine Risk Education (MRE) programs. I visited program sites where local NGOs taught children and their elders about landmines that remain hidden near their villages. At the time, there were still more known minefields to [...]
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 [...]

