Expectations of Independence in Southern Sudan
“Don’t expect that we can’t govern ourselves,” said Paul Monykuer, the former local official in Duk Padiet, a rural community of 65,000 people largely from the Dinka ethnic group ...
A Waiting Game in a Sudanese Battleground Town
“No one wants to give up Malakal,” a Sudanese civil society leader from the Shilluk ethnic group told me. Today, almost five years after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended this war was signed, Malakal remains a strategic town that neither the Khartoum regime nor the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan seem ready to relinquish without a fight ...
Jonglei, Sudan: “Things Have Just Gone to Fighting”
As we bumped along a potholed, badly rutted and unpaved road in a hired 4x4 car on our way to Duk Padiet, site of a deadly attack in September 2009, our Dinka language translator Mabior said, “For many people here, there are only two things, sleeping and eating. People have given up on hoping for more.” ...
On the Brink in Southern Sudan
We’ve spent a lot of time reporting on the potential game-changing political milestones coming up in Sudan in the next year. But now consider this: 5 of the 10 states in South Sudan have already entered a “pre-famine” stage, according to a top U.N. official ...
From Juba To Jonglei, Tension Is In The Air
I recently returned to my base in the capital of southern Sudan from a field research trip to Jonglei state, the site of much of the inter-ethnic violence that has wracked the South this year, resulting in the deaths of more than 2,000 people and displacing at least 350,000 ...
Learning Hope In Southern Sudan
Mother Jina spoke to me about the students at her school who were orphaned during the devastating civil war between Sudan’s North and South, which ended in 2005 with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement ...
Field Dispatch From Southern Sudan
Latest reporting from Enough's South Sudan researcher, Maggie Fick ...
Field Dispatch: Voter Registration Efforts Underway in Sudan
Sunday, November 1st marked the start of the month-long period of voter registration throughout Sudan, a key step toward the first democratic elections to be held in the country in 24 years, now slated for April 2010 ...
Signing Up To Vote In Juba
Yesterday morning, on the third day of the voter registration period in Sudan, I embarked on a wild goose chase with my Sudanese motorcycle driver in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan ...
Sudan’s Referendum Law: Time is Running Out
28 Days. That is the amount of time left for Sudan’s rival parties to resolve their differences over a law that will determine the critical details of southern Sudan’s looming, landmark self-determination referendum ...
