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Auto Mantenance

I tried to get a better shot than this, but was not very successfull.  I was feeling shy to take a photo.   So I was trying to be covert and take” photos” of my wife.
Anyhow, these are the best  I got.  Notice the two little pickup trucks in the background.  They have been turned up [...]

Big Snakes

Update: didn’t happen in Sudan – happened in South Africa and wasn’t a man but an Impala.  Here is the real story. Still an interesting photograph.
A friend in Sudan sent this to me the other day… He claims the incident really happened.  I am rather dubious myself… He said took place sometime in 2007 at [...]

Protest!!!

My wife and a number of Sudanese women got together on Tuesday and held a demonstration to support  Lubna Hussein and other Sudanese activists fighting for the rights of women in Sudan.
Here is a note she pasted on Facebook in regards to the event:
On Tuesday Sudanese women in Kenya made a demonstration in support of [...]

a little round up

I don’t do alot of posts like this.  But its saturday, I’m a little bored and there has been some interesting things taking place.
1 – Riots in Uganda. This has been going since Tuesday or Wednesday and is only now starting to getting a little bit of widespread attention in the press.  Think there is [...]

kissing a giraffe

Today i should have had my camera with me. We decided to take the family out of the house to enjoy the afternoon. It was sunny and almost hot. Haven’t seen so many days like that lately.
We went with no plan and just drove. I decided to head in the [...]

Nairobi Winter

It felt almost cold when I stepped off the plane. Not too cold, but cold enough to throw on an extra layer or wear some long sleeves if one wanted. I havn’t felt cool like that for a long time.
A friend of mine hooked me up with a caravan flight from Juba to Nairobi last [...]

blip

two months just disappeared.  sorry.
just lots of not so fun hanging over my head and I wasn’t feeling up to posting or taking the time to do anything here.
quick review:
- left a contract after working two months and not getting paid.  at the same time lost office location and most of my clients.  the business [...]

Malakal Celebrations?

Mary and I returned to Juba on Tuesday.  In less than 24 hours Mary was able to secure a flight to Malakal to participate in the fourth annual celebration of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between southerners and the government of the North.   Its a very big event in the social calendar for Southern Sudan [...]