---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Ashworth <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:46 AM Subject: [sudans-john-ashworth] Juba slowly "coming back to normalcy" To: Group <[email protected]>
1. E-mail from a reliable source in Juba, 15/07/16 Juba woke up calm this Friday and the cease fire seems to be holding. No more gunfire heard in town and tensions are subsiding. People feel free to move around town, though the streets are not crowded. Communication systems are operating. President Salvar Kiir spoke to the press and called First Vice President Riek Machar back to Juba. Riek Machar also spoke to the press on the phone from an unknown location and fears to return to Juba now. The general situation is not yet fully back to normal. Schools remain closed, reduced bus services, many shops are still closed, some troops deployed in the areas where fighting has taken place, a huge number of IDPs being held in churches and POCs in different parts of the city, displaced persons begin to get some assistance, Red Cross has been collecting dead bodies, casualties figures not yet known. END1 2. Immeasurable resilience: Juba is slowing coming back to normalcy Posted: July 13, 2016 by PaanLuel Wël in Junub Sudan Here are two accounts of two residents of Juba detailing the immeasurable resilience of the South Sudanese people, in the aftermath of the 3-day conflict in the city. Dukú: I toured Juba today from Gudele to ministries, Amarat and to J1, to ha cinema and Hai Malakal, Melekia, Atlabara, to Nyakuon and custom, to Mauna and to Tongping and to Munuki and back to Gudele. As usual the resilience of South Sudanese people is beyond measure they have started getting back to normal life despite the enormous suffering they faced in the past few days. The bad side is that you could still see dead bodies lying down in some parts of the town like in Gudele, Jebel, Mauna, Nyakuron. I hope those bodies will be collected soon and buried. The experience and feeling I got wasn’t good at all. I felt like a foreigner who is trying to study a new place. A feeling that tells me ‘this is not your country’. I hope that all the South Sudanese people will embrace peace so that there will be no repeat of war again. We all have felt what war can do. It is no body’s friend. Just like me a survivor of the recent war, the president himself survived death and Riek Machar equally survived death. So who is a friend to war? NO BODY. So it is time for all of us to embrace peace and live happy. My condolence to the families who have lost loved ones and I say May God rest their souls in peace. God bless South Sudan. Bior: South Sudanese have an immeasurable resilience, on this unfortunate situation that befell them last Friday. I had the chance to drop my sister in-law and her family, who had taken refuge at my house for the last three days, from Gumbo Sherkat, eastern suburb to 107 aka Mia wu Saba, North Western suburb of Juba this afternoon. It is as if nothing happened! People are just going about their normal daily businesses. Some are taking tea, smoking shisha, walking about lazily, others are at the garage seeking mechanic’s opinion on some creaking metallic parts of their automobiles or motorcycles. Konyo-konyo market is busy with people shopping as if tomorrow will never come, loud music, bus boys calling out for passengers to various destinations of the town and beyond. It is real business as usual in Juba #walai. God bless my people. https://paanluelwel.com/2016/07/13/immeasurable-resilience-juba-is-slowing-coming-back-to-normalcy/ END2 ______________________ John Ashworth [email protected] +254 725 926 297 (Kenya mobile) +211 919 695 362 (South Sudan mobile) +27 79 832 8834 (South Africa mobile) +44 787 976 8030 (UK mobile) +88 216 4334 0735 (Thuraya satphone) PO Box 52002 - 00200, Nairobi, Kenya This is a personal e-mail address and the contents do not necessarily reflect the views of any organisation -- -- The content of this message does not necessarily reflect John Ashworth's views. 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