An Untold Catastrophe

Sudan and South Sudan are teetering: war, famine, environmental degradation, and the involuntary movement of hundreds of thousands of people have the potential to exact a dire toll on the lives of millions people.  That this unfolding cataclysm is entirely man made, and entirely avoidable, points to a profound failure of leadership at home and abroad. The numbers are staggering: In North Sudan, the United Nations now estimates that 4.3 million citizens, or 14 percent of the country, are ...

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Northern Exposure

Summer in Northern Sudan is diabolically hot. Temperatures soar into the high forties for seemingly interminable days, punctured only by the intermittent haboobs (strong summer winds) that sweep in from the desert. The summer months bookend the migration of the Misseriya people, who drive their cattle to the grazing lands of the Bahr el-Ghazal River basin. This mass movement of people, and animals, brings the Misseriya into contact with their Dinka Ngok and Nuba countrymen, with whom t...

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