Well in my last blog I had mentioned that I might get the big shaft...Well rumour (99% true) is saying that within the next week or two I will be deploying to the UNMO Team Site in the village of KURMUK Sudan. This is a VERY tiny village that has almost no amenities and lays on the border with Ethiopia. The market is almost non-existent and at times the water supply will dry completely up.
The village lays just under/beside a mountain which the German UNMO's love to hiking on.
Most of the roads in the area are still heavily mined and have not been cleared.
The border to Ethiopia is closed to UN personal however some have been known to pay kids to go across and buy supplies at the market in Ethiopia as it has more items then the one in the village.
I will be the only Canadian at this site.
Where is it? Look on a map of Sudan. Look at the border it shares with Ethiopia and divide that border in half. You will notice a part of Sudan that protrudes into Ethiopia and goes slightly south. Just below that protrusion you will find two roads that go from Sudan into one road in Ethiopia. Zoom in on this location and eventually you will find Kurmuk there. This is the town but probably not where my camp is.
If you follow the main road out of Kurmuk to the west and stop as it curves to the north you may see the words "Kurmuk Zaribah" to the left of that (if you look carefully) you will see a dirt airfield (airport and runway)...I will be somewhere around that location...I think I will be at the south end of the runway...you can see a slight village there.
What does this mean? It means that I will be surviving on food that I buy in Khartoum and that my folks send me.
Oh well, this will be a great learning experience!!
Mike
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