Author Archives: Emmett Kearney

Friendliness, smiling faces and fist-bumps in Raja

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

Raja is such a nice place to live. Walking from our house to the office its lots of ‘how are you?’ and ‘I’m fine’ and ‘Good morning’ (in the afternoon) and ‘Kef?’ and ‘Tammam’ and children asking ‘what is my … Continue reading →

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Discussion and debate

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

If you’ve read anything in the news about problems or violence related to South Sudan recently, there’s almost no chance that it was near Raja. Rest easy grandma. The retributive inter-tribal cattle clashes in Jonglei, the ongoing violence around Abyei … Continue reading →

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The end of Ramadan, the beginning of beans

Posted on September 1, 2011 by

Today we began the celebration of Eid ul-Fitr, which is the feast day marking the end of Ramadan. Well, I say ‘we’ began the celebration, but really I didn’t celebrate anything. It’s the national staff members that are now on … Continue reading →

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A few tears

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

It all happened so fast; I froze. I certainly didn’t know what to do. The kid was completely shocked and confused. It could have gone either way for him, to laugh or to cry, but after the second wave stuck … Continue reading →

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First week in a one-week-old country

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

I’ve spent most of my first week in the MSF office in front of my computer, the same computer that I was sitting in front of a week earlier at my parent’s house near Chicago. Five flights later and the … Continue reading →

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