I have lost my friends and cant go to school
Ishbel Matheson is director of media at Save the Children and is blogging from South Sudan over the election period. Saturday, April 10, 2010 On our trip to Mvolo, we heard that families that have fled recent tribal fighting are camped in the forest about
A mattress on the floor: health care in south Sudan
Ishbel Matheson is director of media at Save the Children and is blogging from South Sudan over the election period. Friday, April 9, 2010 In the town of Mvolo, Sapana Abuyi, who runs a local NGO, shows us to the only local health facility: a one-storey tw
South Sudanese get ready to vote
Ishbel Matheson is director of media at Save the Children and is blogging from South Sudan over the election period. Juba election fever? Tuesday April 6, 2010 We are flying above a scrubby desert, then suddenly close to a large rocky outcrop. There's the
What is the secret of the LRAs survival?
When regional troops launched a long-planned and U.S.-backed attack on the bases of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) nearly a year and a half ago, the days of the Ugandan rebel outfit were supposed to be numbered. But the cult-like group, led by sel