You might have heard of a place straddling North and South Sudan called Abyei. Tricky contested area. Part of the project I work for covers this area and I had the luck to spend some time there a few weeks back. But to get there is no easy feat. From Cairo via Nairobi to Juba and then Juba to Rumbek and then a chopper ride to Abyei. Returning, early morning chopper ride from Abyei to Rumbek, then to Juba and waited 5 hours for a flight to Addis Ababa and then back into Khartoum. It took me just about 18 hours (each way) via two countries to get back into the same area.
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| Community dialogues in Diffra |
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| What I do at work, you asked? This. Talking and collecting stories of some very interesting people under a shady tree. |
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| Dinka and Misseriya neighbours |
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| My very capable colleague and right wing man, Adil Hussein |
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| Yes, my "personal" military escort. He was quite shy. |
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| Driving around Abyei Town on the way to the market |
