Rumbek
latest news & developmentsEco-tourists take to village life in India’s ‘Little Tibet’
Answering the call of nature over a pit of manure with no flush water in sight and learning how to churn butter may not be everyone’s idea of a great holiday. But in India’s…
Sudan’s peacetime allure is deadly too
Hundreds of thousands of people lured back to southern Sudan have high hopes of peace after a 21-year civil war, but there are warnings of chronic food shortage, poor…
The South starts picking up the pieces
In a promising development, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army, the rebel movement that took up arms against Khartoum in 1983, appears to be giving priority to…
Peace deal sparks investment in southern Sudan
The narrow gravel airstrip in the dusty, desolate town of Rumbek has been a hive of activity since rebel and government leaders signed a historic peace accord officially ending…
Repairing the roads less travelled
The construction of a road network for southern Sudan will be crucial to rebuilding a region that, after two decades of civil war, has virtually none at all. Most of those that…