quick update....

Just a quick update to say I’m OK. I’ve been on the move a quite bit the last week. I tagged along with the Dutch fact finding mission to evaluate if and under what conditions we are going to send our UNMO’s to Sudan. This week I’m on a 3 day airfield ramp training course in El Obeid, the UN logistics base in Soedan. The last weeks the situation was a bit more tense here in the South. We had an incident in Yei where people tried to rob a UNHCR compound. A guard was killed and several people wounded. In Yambio an attack on a UN compound took place. Probable agressors were the LRA. The objective was to loot food and comms equipment. 3 attackers were killed and 3 UN troops wounded. Ironically the wounded were soldiers sleeping in their tents at the time of the attack. In both cases a CASEVAC(casualty evacuation) helicopter was launched from our airfield in Juba. Kudos to the paramedics that delivered a fantastic job in treating and stabilising the victims ensuring their recovery.

When I get back to Juba I will post more information. Internet is very slow and it takes hours to get the blog info uploaded but.........stay tuned.