Month November 2023

Jonglei, UNHCR promote peace through wrestling competition

Hundreds of wrestling fans gathered in Bor town of Jonglei State on Sunday, to witness a rare wrestling event between Greenland and Kampala boys. The wrestling was organized by the Jonglei State ministry of culture, youth, and sports in collaboration with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

The Divinity of Deng and tragedy of Ngundeng’s spiritual emblem (däng): in whose interest does the experiences of our ancestors divide us?

Many things beckoned my attention in 2020 when I visited the UN Protection of Civilians (POC) sites around Juba, but the most compelling of which was uncommon tenderness which I received from a little girl named Nyaviva (Nya+Viva). This amazing child grasped my hand as friends and I were walking through the camp. I knelt down and did all I could to speak to her in my rustic Thoknaath, and after the introduction, I was taken aback by the fact that one of factors underlying her continues stay in the POC camp would come to bear her name.