She bears witness to South Sudan's turbulence, one headline at a time
On the bottom shelves of a slumping metal cabinet, beneath a wad of receipts and a lifeless old laptop, sits a first draft of South Sudan’s history, told in bold print headlines.
Like the history it has recorded, the archives of the Juba Monitor are jumbled and missing crucial pages. The issues jammed into the cabinet lurch between tales of civil war and stories of peace agreements being hammered out in faraway cities. Some copies are ripped. Some dates are missing outright. But those that remain tell the story of a brand-new country’s brisk undoing, observed from the inside.
GOVT: NO FAMINE IN SOUTH SUDANWOMEN: WE WANT PEACE NOWCEASEFIRE FAR FROM CONCLUSIVEThese are not the headlines Anna Nimiriano imagined writing when, as a young reporter in July 2011, she wandered through downtown Juba
RAPE AND MURDER IN BOR3.7 MILLION PEOPLE NEED FOODSOUTH SUDAN ON THE PRECIPICE OF CIVIL WARALFRED TABAN OUT ON BAILCEASEFIRE HOLDING IN SOUTH SUDAN’S CAPITALJOURNALIST MURDERED, FAMILY DEMANDS JUSTICESALVA KIIR: I HAVE FORGIVEN MACHARCOUNTRYWIDE RALLIES HELD IN SUPPORT OF PEACE DEALIT’S DONE: PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED IN KHARTOUM
