Well, I've finally done it, set up a blog.

I'm stuck in Lokichogio, northern Kenya, trying to get into Upper Nile, southern Sudan. I was originally suppose to go to Ayod to do an evaluation of the Duk Triangle peace initiative (covering Nyirol, Duk, and Uror Counties), but this was changed due to confrontations between the Sudan army and the "white army" (armed civilians) who are not appreciating the way that they are being "disarmed". The fighting between the two forces has resulted in loss of almost half of the white army's livestock as well as loss of hundreds of human lives.

So, they thought it best I don't go up there, might not be the best time to do "monitoring and evaluation" of the peace processes in that area.

So then I was re-directed to evaluate some of the Murle peace processes in Pibor county (both Murle-Murle as well as Murle with other ethnic groups in the area) - see the map of Pibor County.

I flew up from Nairobi on Sunday, and have been waiting for a flight to either Lekawngole or Pibor. The team here has been wonderful trying all kinds of options... problem is the airstrip in Pibor is under water and there arn't regular flights to Lekawngole. I'm not even trying to think about getting out when the evaluation is done!

Inshallah will leave tomorrow.