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Knock it down!

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 [...]

Toys, Goats and Sickness

This is a picture of one of my nephews holding a toy he had created that day.  It looked liked it would provide hours of fun if it didn’t fall apart.  All it is is a stick, plastic bottle, plastic lid and piece of twine.  He put a very small hole in the side of [...]

malakal updates

So my wife made it back in one piece.  She was still a little bit shaken up over her whole experience in Malakal.  She said the police unloaded a large amount of tear gas to disperse the chaotic crowd and she swallowed some and got a bunch of it in her eyes.  She also feinted [...]

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 [...]