Tag Archives: Juba

Reflections in Juba – “Good Neighbors.”

Posted on August 7, 2014 by mosrubn

Today I dared have a long walk from Juba town center back to office through a route I often trod before the events of 15th December 2013 and before a group of “locals” sat me down in the bush while … Continue reading →

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Reflections in Juba – Rain and more rain

Posted on June 9, 2014 by mosrubn

It has been drip-drip here in Juba since day break and it is past 1 pm now and there is not a single sign that the rain is about to stop. I was in town for the newspaper distribution and … Continue reading →

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A Gift Like No Other

Posted on May 25, 2014 by mosrubn

Whenever I travel home from Tororo or Juba to Entebbe where my wife and children live, my son often asks me after a hug what I have brought them. If I am from Tororo, I often tell him that I … Continue reading →

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South Sudan my second home – Reflections of a stranger in a strange land.

Posted on May 11, 2014 by mosrubn

Just when I thought I had found another home away from my native home in the Eastern Ugandan district of Tororo and my second home in Entebbe in Central Uganda, South Sudan, the world’s newest nation “spat in my face” … Continue reading →

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Mercy Turns Four

Posted on April 25, 2014 by mosrubn

I did stay for Mercy’s birthday after all before traveling to Juba, thanks for the boss’s postponement of our journey to a few days before to Easter. The kids were surely delighted to have me around for the birthday since their mother, … Continue reading →

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Another Day in Juba

Posted on December 17, 2013 by mosrubn

The forty-eight hours within which I thought I would be back home in Uganda for the Christmas holiday are gone and I am still indoors in Juba. If all was well, I would be in Kampala in the photo to … Continue reading →

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Carol of the guns – Juba’s failed coup attempt.

Posted on December 16, 2013 by mosrubn

Just when I thought I had a few hours to leave Juba for the Christmas holiday back home in Uganda, fate had it otherwise and that is probably why I had this bit from the Bible hanging over me after … Continue reading →

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Far from home of the Hybrid Eclipse

Posted on November 3, 2013 by mosrubn

It is another lonely weekend here in my big office home in Juba – no other member of staff around but just me and the security guard. This is the exact opposite of what I am viewing on TV happening … Continue reading →

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Taxi Tales – Lies and more lies

Posted on October 31, 2013 by mosrubn

  As it often happens I took a bus from Juba to Kampala on my journey home last week.  Not any spectacular things happening along the journey save for the usual contrasts of the Uganda and South Sudanese highway traffic police … Continue reading →

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If cows could talk?

Posted on October 17, 2013 by mosrubn

If cows could talk, they would have a lot to say about some human beings. Yesterday as I browsing the internet, I saw a headline on MSN Kenya which caught my eye; “Bull fighting in Kenya.” I flipped through the … Continue reading →

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