Flying home

I am now in Khartoum and living at Canada house. The out clearance here only took about three hours for about 90% of the procedures. The remaining 10% have taken five days as many of the decision makers and people who can authorize payments are either off sick or on holidays. The UN does not assign back up people for authorization while others are off. I have been told that they are deducting one of my holiday days and that the three days of pay that I was authorized by 5 different people is not going to be paid and that it should not have been authorized. I decided to fight this however after the 4th day I have given up.

My flights had to be changed to accommodate the cloud of ash from the Iceland volcano. I was supposed to be leaving Sudan for Amsterdam, visiting The Hague for a couple hours and then heading to Toronto. Now I will be flying Emirates Airlines where I will have a 9 hour layover in Dubai from midnight till 9 am. Then I will fly to Toronto direct.