The rains have cooled down, somewhat, in South Sudan. Some airstrips stay closed more often than open. Here is the main road in a village, Rubkona. I hope this road, miles of it in the same condition, will discourage anybody to visit that awful place. Yesterday again, the pilots were reminding each other to avoid overflying the village for risk of being shoot by the rebels. The UNCHA staff also reports harassment from the regular troops, which hold the airstrip.
I got into troubles with some troops, more on a post soon.
Anyway…some other villages looked so peaceful. Nobody to be seen though. Maybe in hiding waiting for an airplane to aim at?
Here is a cropped image of such a village. Notice the multi layered roofs. No activity? Cattle, hanging clothes, garbage, a dog, some kids…?
Some places look so fancy…Flat, the same expanses of land on hundreds of miles around…Some huts. Hardly no farming though. What for, food is handed over anyway. Or wars perturb the harvests, the farmers… more than 3 million South Sudanese are still refugees.
A few minutes of peacefulness.
The Nile near Juba… The truck is a UN one, I gather there is a sanitary process for that water. Not guaranteed with civilian trucks like anywhere else in the 3rd world.
The White Nile, the famous Nile…not much in this part of the world. Ethiopia with its Blue Nile, provides almost all of it. But this is still the Nile…Not a Belgian river.
Part of the Nile near Bor. I have spotted these round grassy islands (I assume they are islands by the look of it). Are they floating? Pushed by the winds? I can’t explain the creation of these either, yet.
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