The Worst Place on Earth Death and Life in the Lost Town of Leer By Nick Turse LEER, South Sudan There it is again. That sickening smell. I’m standing on the threshold of a ghost of a home. Its footprint is all that’s left. In the ruins sits a bulbous little silver teakettle — metalsoftly…
Category: SUDAN
One by One, South Sudan Tries to Name Its War Victims
Nick Turse RODA NYAJIECH JUCH, wearing a white and purple dress with a gold band on her ring finger, can’t stop wringing her hands as she tells me about eight students killed near Jebel Checkpoint, a neighborhood in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. It was December 16, 2013, just hours into a civil war pitting President…
The Lord’s Resistance Army : A Global Terrorist Network
By Alexander Mezayaev The stability in Africa is undermined by many militant groups, including Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al-Shabaab in Somalia and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb spreading terrorist activities to Mali, Niger and other countries. The Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, deserves special attention. It has been going on a rampage in Uganda since…
South Sudanese and Congolese Flee from One War Zone to Another
By Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News, 12.06.2015. South Sudanese and Congolese refugees flee back and forth across the two countries’ border. Both peoples would be comfortable if their immense resources were used for their benefit. Transcript: KPFA Weekend News Anchor David Landau: South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are two of the world’s…
South Sudan : African Union Commission Says Oil Resources Must Benefit the People for Lasting Peace
By Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News: Professor Horace Campbell says the recommendations of the African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan, which include using the country’s oil wealth to benefit its people, must be implemented if there is to be any hope of lasting peace. Transcript KPFA Evening News Anchor Sharon Sobotta: The warring…
