[Montréal, Québec, Canada 18°C] Sudan is indeed at a crossroad. On January 9, 2011, Southern Sudanese are expected to participate in a self-determination referendum that will determine whether the South will separate from the rest of Sudan and become Africa’s newest independent country. No small feat for a population that was at war for over [...]
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Montréal June/July Exhibit of South Sudan Photos
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kader's Three Years of Sanctuary in St-Gabriel's Church
January 1, 2006 was the day Abdelkader Belaouni entered into a self-imposed sancutary at St-Gabriel’s Church in the Pointe Saint-Charles neighbourhood of Montréal. On January 6, I visited Kader on the second floor of the rectory where he has spent much of the last 1100 days to avoid deportation back to Algeria.
