After a lifetime of travel together with my family and Malaria Prevention Volunteers we recently completed an “All Afrika” odyssey to embrace every country on the continent – but as we all know Africa is not that easy and it delights in throwing the occasional curved ball – so here we are back home after an incredible journey only to find that after 30 years of war, Southern Sudan is about to secede from the North.

The Independence Day event to celebrate the birth of the world’s newest country is on the 09^th July and we need to be there for this historic event and to continue with more United Against Malaria work. Currently a baby dies every 45 seconds from the blood sucking bite from the anopheles mosquito.

WE NEED TO HELP!

Sadly in Sudan, things are hotting up again with the border town of Abyei having just been taken by troops loyal to President Al Bashir of the Islamic North. Some predict that the war in the South could start again.

“As on every journey the expedition will fill the symbolic calabash at the beginning and empty it at the end. As Always, they’ll carry a United Against Malaria Scroll of Peace and Goodwill in Support of Malaria Prevention”.

There will be some interesting challenges ahead. We’ll keep you posted with dispatches from the Journey to Juba adventure diary.