Posts Tagged ‘roads’

[Malual Kon, Northern Bahr el-Ghazal, Southern Sudan 40°C] The gravel road between Malual Kon—where I’m now based—and the new Women’s Association Centre in Gok Machar village, where we are driving to, is long and mostly strait. It traverses a savannah-like landscape of grassland dotted with mango, palm, gwel, neem and other trees. It’s now the dry season and the tall grasses are cut for covering the roofs of all the new tukuls (houses made with mud bricks and a grass covered roof) being build by the Internally displaced people (IDPs) that are returning to the south in great numbers. Some of the trees are without leaves but when the rain comes, the land will flood, the rivers swell and everything will come alive and multiply, including mosquitos.