Making Rain Fall

Parco dei Mostri

2007-07-27T07:40:00.000+02:00

Built by Vicino Orsini in the 1550s

Nigerian Democrazy

2007-06-10T11:36:00.000+02:00

Abuja, the capital

Life Five Miles Outside Abuja

Voting Day in Port HarcourtVoting with the help of 'election monitors'

Abuja rainstorm approaches

Back To Italy

2007-06-09T08:33:00.000+02:00

Ravello

Positano

Vesuvius

Capri Montebuono in Bloom

Karima

2007-03-11T12:04:00.000+02:00

Destination: Jebel Barkal

The way across the Nile

Sudan TV was there

It dawns on them that the ferry ride may take a while. Celine looks particularly pleased with the situation.
The road to the ferry, the second one, a truck took a dip at the first one, shutting it down for the day.

Across the Nile and heading to Karima

The tombs of El Kurru

The gang and Shayr, who led us to the key master

The petrified forest outside El KurruAn unlikely encounter with students from Nyala, Darfur

Abandoned Nile Steamer

The Nubian Guest House

10 a.m.: And what is for lunch? Jebel BarkalThe Temple of Mut The Temple of Amun

Karima from the height of Jebel Barkal Photo Credit: Jonah Fisher

Getting Ready to cross the Nile for the trip back to Khartoum

Tawilla, Darfur

2007-03-11T11:17:00.000+02:00

Khadija, raped in October 2006, beaten in February 2007

Sheikh Abdalla in the Camp for War Displaced

Abyei, Sudan

2006-11-22T13:36:00.000+02:00

Agok
Abyei from above

Lord's Resistance Army

2006-11-16T09:10:00.000+02:00

Jan Egeland, the United Nations' emergency aid coordinator, travels with journalists, UN officials, and Riek Machar, the vice president of southern Sudan to meet Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, at an assembly area known as Ri-Kwangba on Sudan's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. We had to wait several hours before Kony's arrival.

The road to Ri-Kwangba

Egeland meets Vincent Otti, the LRA's deputy leader

Pyramids in Merowe, Sudan and Naga Temples

2006-10-28T19:45:00.000+02:00

This is the royal necropolis of Merowe, about 230 kilometres north of Khartoum and three kilometres from the River Nile. There are more than 20 pyramids here. The Nubian pyramids have no mortuary inside, and the real tomb is dug in the rock below. It is linked to the outside by an inclined tunnel, with the walls decorated by bas-reliefs showing the King's life and the gods. The tombs were smashed by an Italian explorer, Giuseppe Ferlini, who was looking for treasure in the 1820s.

The Naga Temples and the Musawwarat site are located 130 kilometers north of Khartoum and 30 kilometres east of the River Nile. The 1st century A.D. Apedemak temple has bas relief decorations with the image of God with a lion head, of the Pharoah and of the nobles and several ritual images of the Apedemak God.

The Musawwarat site is about 10 kilometers from Naga and is similarly dedicated to the Apedemak God, who is usually represented by a lion's head on a chap with armour. One temple at Musawwarat was restored by Germans around 1969.

Magwi, southern Sudan

2006-10-12T07:51:00.000+02:00

Jella Akot, whose son was killed by the Lord's Resistance Army, children in the center of Magwi, near an artillery piece left behind by Sudan's army. A new borehole is operating, and kids get ready to go to school.

Goz Beida, Chad

2006-09-25T11:42:00.000+02:00

Refugees from both the war in Darfur and attacks in eastern Chad in the Chadian village of Goz Beida. May 2006

Eastern, Sudan

2006-09-24T10:53:00.000+02:00

Kassala in Eastern Sudan

Eritrean refugees at Kilo 26 refugee camp.

Haboob

2006-09-24T10:44:00.000+02:00

A Haboob Hits Khartoum, Sudan, in June 2005.

Whirling Dervishes

2006-09-24T09:45:00.000+02:00

Ombdurman, Sudan

The River Nile

2006-09-24T05:28:00.000+02:00

Starting from Moro in northern Uganda, moving north to Juba, travelling with Bor Dinka displaced people returning home, and finally relaxing on the Blue Nile in Khartoum

Juba

Bor Dinka leaving Juba for a two-day trip by boat home to Bor (March 2006)

The welcoming committee in Bor
An evening on the Blue Nile

Who's your daddy?

Darfur, Sudan

2006-09-24T00:58:00.000+02:00

Sudan Liberation Army fighters in rebel controlled territory in the Jebel Marra. The leather pouches they wear contain words of the Koran that are meant to protect them in battle.

Refugees around the town of Golo, in Jebel Marra, Darfur, July 2005
Kalma Camp, outside the city of Nyala in southern Darfur, houses about 90,000 refugees from the civil war in Darfur. Below are pictures of demonstrators at the camp in May 2006 welcoming Jan Egeland, the United Nations' top aid coordinator, and calling for international troops to intervene in Darfur

Gereida, in southern Darfur, is now about the biggest camp for international displaced people in Darfur. During this May visit rebels of the Sudan Liberation Movement were hovering around the newly arrived refugees. Some 120,000 people live in Gereida, making it the biggest refugee center in Darfur.

African Union forces from Nigeria stationed in Gereida.

Sudan Liberation Army rebel fighters

Tamadur Adam, a 25-year-old mother of two, fled to Gereida in April when her village of Joghana came under attack by government helicopters and an Antonov plane dropping bombs. Soldiers roared around in land cruisers shouting, "We have conquered you! We have conquered you!"
Refugees fleeing attacks by the Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minnawi and government forces on the region around the village of Tawilla in northern Darfur in July 2006.
What the government uses "to keep the peace in Darfur", attack helicopters at El Fasher airport. The African Union peacekeepers' secret weapon, Major Majola of South Africa. South African troops drilling and an African Union helicopter taking off in Kutum, northern Darfur.

The landscape of northern Darfur

Montebuono, Rieti, Italia

2006-09-23T14:28:00.000+02:00

Winter in Montebuono

Kitchen, before and after