[Wau, Southern Sudan 36°C] I leave the bustling and dusty capital of Juba and fly about 500 kms northeast into the interior of Southern Sudan to the town of Wau. Although there is less traffic in Wau, without a single paved road in the town, it is equally dusty. The oxidized earth leaves a veiled remnant of itself as an orange dusting on anything that remains still for just a second. In the evenings, it peppers the tongue and tingles the nostrils.
Posts Tagged ‘UNICEF’
Mine Risk Education West of Juba
[Juba, Southern Sudan 34ºC] It’s my first day in Juba (Feb 26) and I start working right away. From Juba, I have a “story from the field” to write about Mine Risk Education (MRE). I’m picked up for a briefing meeting at the UNICEF offices. You can’t get in without a badge or an escort [...]
Arriving in Juba, Southern Sudan
[Juba, Southern Sudan 33ºC] Flight 565 from Nairobi touches down onto one of the rarest commodities in all of Southern Sudan: a paved surface. The only tarmac in the entire southern region of Sudan—which is about the size of France—is in Juba and about 1/4 of it makes up the airport’s runway. But that is [...]
Departure for Nairobi, Kenya is set. Juba, Sudan will follow.
[MONTRÉAL] Today, I bought my airline ticket, leaving me with two weeks, two days, 22 hours and two minutes before departure time. Actually, the accurate time is constantly changing in the Countdown columnn to the right, which will benchmark various phases of the trip. Arrivals, departures, events. Something to string you along.
