[Montréal, Québec, Canada -4°C] I visited Southern Sudan March/April 2009. It seems like such a long time ago. Reviewing the video footage and photographs I took during my visit, brings me back. Below is my latest video montage of a particular day: March 20, 2009.
This is the day I joined a team of World Vision [...]
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Video: Immunization in Lurcuk Village, Tonj North, South Sudan
Elections in Sudan a Logistical Challenge
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -4°C] Holding elections anywhere in the world is a logistical challenge. Considering that Sudan has not had elections since 1986, it is Africa’s largest country with vast regions among the least developed on the planet, election logistics are no simple matter.
Census and Voter Registration
There are prerequisites to conducting a democratic election that [...]
Lost Boys Hopeful to Rebuild South Sudan
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -2°C] I can imagine the emotional depth and confused sense of belonging/alienation that must come from a return visit to one’s homeland ofter a very long and forced exile. At least I think I can. The documentary film by Jen Marlowe, Rebuilding Hope, offers a glimpse of estrangement as it collides with [...]
Perspective: Sudan – Land of Water and Thirst; War and Peace
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -9°C] Below is a first post that was not written in-house. It was taken from another source. It is the first article I read that discusses so eloquently the water conundrum in Sudan.
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Perspective: Sudan – Land of Water and Thirst; War and Peace
by Dr. Paul J. Sullivan as a Special to the [...]
Preliminary Voter Registration Results for Sudan
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -11°C] Preliminary voter registration results have been released in a December 13 statement by Al Hadi Muhammad Ahmed, Head of the National Election Commission’s Registration Committee. “The total of the registration up to now is 15,778,154. This percentage is 81% of the targeted number of people who are above 18 years according [...]
Southern Sudan: Oil Exploitation vs Wildlife Protection
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -2°C] Before the last civil war started in Sudan in 1983, the country’s protected areas, according to the Wildlife Conservaton Society, “supported some of the most spectacular and important wildlife populations in Africa, and hosted the second largest wildlife migration in the world.” According to their website, “During an aerial survey, more [...]
Logistical Challenges Facing Sudan Elections
[Juba, Southern Sudan 26ºC] The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by the Khartoum regime in the north and rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), based in the south of Sudan, is approaching a decisive and possibly its most difficult-to-implement phase so far: the April 2010 elections.
The National Election Commission (NEC) and United Nations (UN) kicked [...]
