Crossing the River

It's been a while since I added to this - sorry, kind of fell off the blog wagon for a while. I have actually been sort of busy. For a while there, the team site was down to just 5 Military Observers (UNMOs) so we were conducting patrols daily, doing the paperwork, back out again, etc. We have started to receive new UNMOs though, all of whom are welcome additions to the team.

In the past weeks, I have been on an Air Patrol north to a place called WADEKONA and a 3-day vehicle patrol to a place called ARANK, near the North/South border crossing. I will add some pics of these trips and a bit on what we have been doing there.

Flying by helo let us get a glipse at much of the area we can otherwise not see - the whole west side of the Nile. There are no bridges for hundreds of kms north or south of here, certainly none in three days drive either direction. So, we and all the people living in the area, have a very hard time getting across the river. Our only option is to patrol that area by air. The 45 min flight north allowed us to see much of the varied landscape and visit a remote location in our AOR.