Immeasurable resilience: Juba is slowly coming back to normalcy
Here are two accounts of two residents of Juba detailing the immeasurable resilience of the South Sudanese people, in the aftermath of the 3-day conflict in the city.
- Dukú: I toured Juba today from Gudele to ministries, Amarat and to J1, to ha cinema and Hai Malakal, Melekia, Atlabara, to Nyakuon and custom, to Mauna and to Tongping and to Munuki and back to Gudele. As usual the resilience of South Sudanese people is beyond measure they have started getting back to normal life despite the enormous suffering they faced in the past few days. The bad side is that you could still see dead bodies lying down in some parts of the town like in Gudele, Jebel, Mauna, Nyakuron. I hope those bodies will be collected soon and buried. The experience and feeling I got wasn’t good at all. I felt like a foreigner who is trying to study a new place. A feeling that tells me ‘this is not your country’. I hope that all the South Sudanese people will embrace peace so that there will be no repeat of war again. We all have felt what war can do. It is no body’s friend. Just like me a survivor of the recent war, the president himself survived death and Riek Machar equally survived death. So who is a friend to war? NO BODY. So it is time for all of us to embrace peace and live happy. My condolence to the families who have lost loved ones and I say May God rest their souls in peace. God bless South Sudan.
- Bior: South Sudanese have an immeasurable resilience, on this unfortunate situation that befell them last Friday. I had the chance to drop my sister in-law and her family, who had taken refuge at my house for the last three days, from Gumbo Sherkat, eastern suburb to 107 aka Mia wu Saba, North Western suburb of Juba this afternoon. It is as if nothing happened! People are just going about their normal daily businesses. Some are taking tea, smoking shisha, walking about lazily, others are at the garage seeking mechanic’s opinion on some creaking metallic parts of their automobiles or motorcycles. Konyo-konyo market is busy with people shopping as if tomorrow will never come, loud music, bus boys calling out for passengers to various destinations of the town and beyond. It is real business as usual in Juba #walai. God bless my people.
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