Adam Bemma

  • Former child soldier in South Sudan shares story

    MALAKAL, South Sudan – 28-year-old Anthony Thon was only 15 when he was captured by the SPLA, Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, and made to fight Khartoum government forces in Sudan’s second civil war. In 2005, after the signing of the CPA, Comprehensive Peace Agreement, he escaped the SPLA and returned to school. After South Sudan…

    Adam Bemma

  • War Veterans Planting for Peace in South Sudan

    JUBA, Aug 21 2014 (IPS) – Along the fertile banks of sub-Saharan Africa’s White Nile, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile River, a war veteran’s co-op is planting for a food secure future in South Sudan, a country potentially facing famine. Wilson Abisai Lodingareng, 65, is a peri-urban farmer and founder of…

    Adam Bemma
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