This is Alberto Kuol Kuol Makuach’s story.
During a 7-week visit to Southern Sudan, I interviewed over a dozen Southern Sudanese men and women. Each person offers an intimate view of their lives during the 21-year civil war and since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005. We get a glimpse into their family [...]
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Video Portrait #2 from Southern Sudan : Alberto Kuol Kuol Makuach
Post-2012 Scenarios for Sudan: War vs Peace, United vs Secession
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 19°C] The report, Sudan 2012: Scenarios for the future, was released in the Hague on September 1, 2009. It takes an interesting and original approach to the problems of Sudan by looking ahead, past the much talked about 2011 referendum, to what Sudan could be like in 2012 based an four scenarios [...]
Video Portrait #1 From Southern Sudan : Rose Achan Beryl
This is Rose Achan Beryl’s story.
During a 7-week visit to Southern Sudan, I interviewed about a dozen Southern Sudanese men and women. Each one offers an intimate view of their lives during the 21-year civil war and since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005. We get a glimpse into their family lives [...]
Permanent Court of Arbitration Makes Ruling on Abyei Border
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 20°C] At 8:00 am GMT, the five-member Abyei Arbitration Tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague began ceremonies to render its final decision regarding the delimitation of the Abyei boundaries, which have been a source of tension and conflict between Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party and the Government [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Remnants of War in Southern Sudan
[Nairobi, Kenya 29°] A return to Nairobi after a heavy schedule across seven cities and countless villages throughout Southern Sudan leaves me tired and ready for a holiday in Tanzania. First a safari near Arusha, then a beachside break on the island of Zanzibar.
I haven’t had the opportunity to post in the last two weeks [...]
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 [...]
Montréal fireworks are not always a pleasure of mine
[MONTRÉAL] I sit in my living room reading David Eggers’ What is the What, a fictionalized biography about Valentino Achak Deng, one of the Lost Boys from Sudan’s 21-year civil war. The war ended tenuously in 2005 with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Sudanese army in the north and the [...]
