Hugh Sykes in South Sudan
On BH this week, Hugh reported some of the daunting problems facing
South Sudan as it prepares to become a new country in July - daunting
problems, and an infectious spirit of focussed determination to succeed.
Wedding programme for the marriage of bank clerk Grace Scopas to sound
engineer Levi Tombe, at St.Kizito's open air church, Munuki, near Juba
Here comes the bride
The wedding dancers
Watching the wedding
Watching the wedding
Watching the wedding
Watching the wedding
Watching the wedding
The 'People of God', marching through Juba
They sing Hallelujah
They are thanking God for the referendum result and independence in July
500 people at least. There were a thousand at the wedding, including those watching from the sides and the back
Basic hospital in Nimule, in the Sudan/Uganda border. South Sudan health statistics are shocking. One in ten babies in south Sudan don't reach their first birthday.
Village between Juba and Nimule.
The villagers' main source of income is charcoal, sold to passers by at 25 Sudanese pounds per sack. There are about 4 Sudanese pounds to the £ sterling
A boy bringing chickens for the pot. A long dusty haul on the Juba to Nimule road. It is 120 miles long, and takes more than four hours to drive. It is due to be surfaced with bitumen, in a project largely financed by USAID. It is the main import artery from Uganda
You have been warned. The legacy of 22 years of civil war. Randomly by the roadside I saw the fins of a rocket-propelled grenade, a rocket
shaft and a large brass shell casing. How many millimetres? Who cares? It was as big as the base of a large cider bottle, and may have killed or wounded a lot of people
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