Wapi Ndizi yangu!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I got to my office a bit late yesterday morning.  I am very happy that I didn’t run a place in the center of the Juba Town market. It was bulldozed down by the government.
Apparently the government is referring to these shops and their owners as squatters.  They say they have taken over the land [...]

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 [...]

About a week ago I took a series of photos one morning in an attempt to illustrate driving conditions here in Juba.  Click on the photos below to go see the whole album.
Hash over at White African has a nice little post about riding a chinese motorcycle around for a day in Kenya.  In Southern [...]

Over the past few weeks a curfew has been put in place for Juba.  It was gazetted in one of the local newspapers, but we didn’t see it.  What we heard were lots of warnings from others that it was now in effect.
It is said to have been put in action to curb an escalation [...]

my ear still has a problem.  I am afraid I have done some permanent damage.  Yes I should have seen a doctor, but he probably would have just said I had Malaria.  I don’t have much faith in many of the doctors here.
i took some ear drops.  they made my nose run the whole night.  [...]