My sincere regrets for this sudden request, things actually got out of control on my trip to Madrid,Spain . I was mugged,all my belongings including cellphone and credit card were all stolen at gun point. I need your help flying back home.
Am cash strapped at the moment. I've made contact with my bank but the best they could do was to send me a new card in the mail which will take 3-5 working days to arrive here. I need you to lend me some money to sort my self out of this predicament, i will pay back once i make it out of Madrid.
Western union is the fastest option to wire funds to me. Let me know if you need my details(Full names/location) to effect a transfer. You can reach me via email or hotel's desk phone and the number is,+34 91 608912736.
Love,
Naomi
Monday 11 July 2011
Email Fraud From Naomi's Account - Supporters Please Read
Someone (or something on someone's behalf) has managed to hack Naomi's account and send fictitious emails pretending to be her in urgent need of money. If you receive the following email (or similar) purporting to be from Naomi, please delete immediately!
Saturday 9 July 2011
Happy Independence Day from the villages of South Sudan
The dawn chorus on this independence day witnessed a splattering of guns across the horizon, shooting into the air in celebration. If they had not been given their South Sudan, they would have fired in anger. Instead, they fired with joy. From the pops of the Ak47s to the tutterings of the machine guns, they declared their freedom. As the sun climbed higher, women started singing, the drum started sounding and bulls were slaughtered. In the villages, everyone was celebrating and watching as the new flag was raised. The party is still dancing through the village now although the sun has already set.
Thank God that he answered prayers for a peaceful day and for freedom for this land. Everyone can hardly believe it's come true.
Thursday 7 July 2011
Two Days Until Independence
This evening I sat at my friends's home, her daughter occasionally jumping off my knees to chase the goats away from the crops. Their tukals (mud huts) sit adjacent to the UN food halls and today food was being distributed. Hundreds of ladies flowed through her home to greet us, 25Kg sacks of grain carried on their heads. Their harvest of the year before was not enough to feed them and they will be dependent on others for the food for their independence day feasting.
Here are some thoughts I have written for a Royal African Society blog, in case you're interested.
Keep praying for peace, and God's foundations to this new land and people.
Here are some thoughts I have written for a Royal African Society blog, in case you're interested.
Keep praying for peace, and God's foundations to this new land and people.
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Four Days Until Independence
In just four days time, South Sudan will become the newest nation on earth. Children are practising the new national anthem and flag poles are being raised in the county offices. Schools have started their two week holiday but still practices of singing and marching continue.
Things to pray for:
1) The Nuba Mountains
The Nuba Mountains sit north of the North-South border, in the terrain governed from Khartoum. However, resisting oppression from this regime, the people of the Nuba Mountains fought with the Southern SPLA during the long civil war. The coming of independence leaves these people in an unclear and insecure position. With the North wanting to assert their authority, they have started an offensive in the Nuba Mountains that seems nothing short of genocide. The atrocities that the South suffered for decades seem to be starting afresh in these hills.
2) South Sudan
Please pray for South Sudan as the 9th July and independence approaches. It seems that the whole country is holding its breath until then. There has been insecurity in this state due to a rebel militia and there are other agitations throughout the country.
3) Regina and Her Baby
Last night my friend Regina (Dut's wife) had a sleepless night in her mud hut due to intense pains. She is at least six months pregnant. Please pray that she will get better soon and that the baby will be kept safe.
Things to pray for:
1) The Nuba Mountains
The Nuba Mountains sit north of the North-South border, in the terrain governed from Khartoum. However, resisting oppression from this regime, the people of the Nuba Mountains fought with the Southern SPLA during the long civil war. The coming of independence leaves these people in an unclear and insecure position. With the North wanting to assert their authority, they have started an offensive in the Nuba Mountains that seems nothing short of genocide. The atrocities that the South suffered for decades seem to be starting afresh in these hills.
2) South Sudan
Please pray for South Sudan as the 9th July and independence approaches. It seems that the whole country is holding its breath until then. There has been insecurity in this state due to a rebel militia and there are other agitations throughout the country.
3) Regina and Her Baby
Last night my friend Regina (Dut's wife) had a sleepless night in her mud hut due to intense pains. She is at least six months pregnant. Please pray that she will get better soon and that the baby will be kept safe.
Friday 1 July 2011
BBC Article on Warlord Gadet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13977178
Continued prayers are much appreciated. The above is a very good article on Gadet. His base in Mayom County is just over the border from our County's grazing lands and his attacks killed over a hundred people from our Apuk Dinka last month. Many children at Marol lost brothers and uncles. If you listen carefully to some of the lyrics on the video, in Nuer (not so dissimilar from Dinka) they sing, "we will go to Yiikador". Yiikador is the neighbouring, market village to Marol, less than an hour's walk. In fact, they run into each other.
However, God is big enough to keep us safe. Plus, at the moment, the river is flooded north of Yiikador and Marol meaning that it would be very, very hard for them to reach it, especially at this time of year. They have not done it since the height of the civil war in the 1980s and 1990s.
Continued prayers are much appreciated. The above is a very good article on Gadet. His base in Mayom County is just over the border from our County's grazing lands and his attacks killed over a hundred people from our Apuk Dinka last month. Many children at Marol lost brothers and uncles. If you listen carefully to some of the lyrics on the video, in Nuer (not so dissimilar from Dinka) they sing, "we will go to Yiikador". Yiikador is the neighbouring, market village to Marol, less than an hour's walk. In fact, they run into each other.
However, God is big enough to keep us safe. Plus, at the moment, the river is flooded north of Yiikador and Marol meaning that it would be very, very hard for them to reach it, especially at this time of year. They have not done it since the height of the civil war in the 1980s and 1990s.
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