Thursday, February 25, 2010

Bomb disposal in Moruland

Here's an article and a series of photos about bomb disposal on the banks of the Yei River: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/100215/war-southern-sudan?page=0,0 -- not Lui, but still part of Moruland. There's interesting history in this article about what happened to Mundri during the civil war, too.

Here is the Yei River in 2003. The old bridge was bombed out and the new one wasn't built yet. A memory from that first trip to Moruland was seeing bombs with the back end just barely showing at ground level; the branches were laid out on the ground to warn people (below). It's nice to know that the Danes are removing the bombs and people are able to plant crops by the river again.

Pray for peace in Sudan...

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