May 04, 2012
Going South
On a hot evening in March, with the temperature still over 100 degrees, I met a veteran journalist named Jacob Akol in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. South Sudan is the newest nation in the world, and it shows: Juba is expanding so quickly that it basically reinvents itself every month. Hotels and offices are constructed out of used shipping containers. Dirt roads alter their course overnight, diverted so that people can claim uninterrupted plots of land. READ MORE >>
