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ASAH coming to Wahpeton - 2009-04-21
The Wahpeton Daily News did a nice job covering Joseph's visit this Wednesday, April 22. The reporter did a great job of talking to our host, Sybil Priebe, about why ASAh is relevant to Wahpeton and their college, North Dakota State College of Science.
The "uneasy peace" gets all the press. - 2009-04-18
NPR ran a long story this morning about some North-South fighting in Malakal, a border town. The fighting was in February, which be an illustration of how slow the news moves coming out of Sudan.
When Joseph presents, we often get this question--will the peace hold? A good, legitimate question. I just wish the press would also cover the work of all the NGOs and southern Sudanese trying to build peace, trying to build an infrastructure that would stabilize the country enough so that its people wouldn't feel like going to war is their only or best option.
Newspaper coverage of recent speaking events - 2009-04-09
The Clinton Herald ran a nice story before we spoke in that eastern Iowa city.
The University of Iowa's Daily Iowan ran a story and included some video of Joseph explaining John Garang's Iowa-Sudan connection.
Cedar Rapids Appearances - 2009-04-02
Our Cedar Rapids appearances are nicely described on the CR Gazette's website. Ellen Fisher has done an amazing job of putting together our CR tour--thanks Ellen!
The Road to Duk Payuel - 2009-03-21
Joseph sent the following message to our Board of Directors. The news is great, and the quotation is so wonderful from the elder I had to share it with the world. I did ask for Joseph's permission first.
Team,
I just spoke to people at Duk. They are very happy that Philip Thon, Minister for roads and transportation has developed the road from Poktap to Duk. It is only 8 minutes to ride the car from Poktap to Duk and it was one hour by car the time I came with Kevin, Matt, Deb. The road development is proceeding to North Sudan which might give us chance of buying building Material from Malakal(Town).
Internet, good road among others attracted several NGOS to Duk. International Rescue Service(IRS) began to establish their compound at Duk. Many will follow them.
John Dau Library just arrived at Duk. The books were shifted in container from America to Duk, very exciting.
One old man I spoke to said "It is not a development but Mircles because our village never seen such things since the creation." He went on, on, on, and on thanking American people, and lastly he said Bin Laden is a pig who wanted to kill Americans who love the whole world.
Thanks,
Joseph
