Naomi Pendle

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

The election results are out&things seem peaceful.4 people r still in prison in our village,accused of supporting an opposition party bu ...

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

The villagersRnow waiting4Tues' results, hidden from the sun under the trees. Local counts show a clear win for the SPLM in the South.

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

Much of Warrap State still remains without ballot papers, stopping eager voters from casting their votes under the Southern Sudanese trees.

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

Last night there were attempts to shot the opposition candidate in River Lodge - the place I stay when I'm in Wau.

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

I ate beans with my hands in a restaurant4lunch&had fresh mangoes4dinner.I'm just off2buy a sign saying home4my hut.The boy's workshop i ...

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

e election broadcasts&the FCO2 monitor security.The world is watching.

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

Safely back in Juba-a capital city full of dirt mud tracksUN& landcruisers.It has just rained so the city's power's out.On the plane 2da ...

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

Good bye4a little while. Just disappearing from British soil and on my way to my second home . Naomi

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

I uploaded a YouTube video -- Thong Muonyjang - How is (2) http://youtu.be/okr99AKjbOM?a

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

I uploaded a YouTube video -- For The Cows (South Sudan) http://youtu.be/a4ZE59RPW6E?a

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

There was more Nuer raiding on the Dinka last night.The injured passed through our village 2day.Many cannot afford hospital.

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

PeopleRworried about their children&cows as they are many days walk away with the cows in Tonj,where the deadly tribal raidsRtaking place.

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

There has been a trail of raids in the neighbouring county.The injured have bn brought2Wau hospital.But the rest of life goes on like no ...

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

Waited hrs4a truck2Wau but now have a pile of dusty gravel.Saw the railway tracks that took slaves just a few yrs ago.

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

Safely home from Lietnam.2day was a peace celebration in that village as2years ago the village was burnt&200 people killed.

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

Bricks4my home were2expensive2buy4now,but language lessonsRfree if you sit by the waterpump. See http://southsudan2010.blogspot.com/

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

Ci Yin Bak? (How are you?) A language lesson&lunch in a mud hut in the market. And as the moon is full,Ucan still C 2B outside.

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

I am sitting in the hut on the compound. Cows escaped onto the compound earlier+now a man with a gun (but uniform to so it's all ok)

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

A near plane crash, food poisoning and tea with the former Chief Justice of South Sudan. Not bad for my first two days back in Warrap State

[Naomi Pendle @SouthSudan]

They put a plastic lump on his herding stick. Why? Security risk. But the guns still wander around.