One of my mates served in Dafur, Sudan on a peacekeeping mission a while back. He once shared with me the tales of battle and described teenage rebels as thin as stickmen carrying AK47’s move past them silently under the cover of night, only to meet an ambush and fire-fight a few kilometers away.
News of the renewed fighting in South Sudan between the Dinka and Nuer tribes reminded me of the Lost Boys, who trekked through Ethiopa to Kenya, fleeing a civil war at the turn of the millenium.
The fighting rages on this week, as the two tribes meet in Juba to talk peace. More than a thousand have already died, and 200 thousand more have fled.
These are two western reports on the story…
New York Times report:
GRASSROOTS 