BAHR EL JEBEL SAFARIS HOPES TO RESUME SAFARI EXPEDITIONS TO SOUTH SUDAN IN 2015
(Posted 14th July 2014)
Bahr el Jebel Safaris, one of South Sudan’s few professional safari and expedition outfitters, has expressed cautious optimism that they might be able to resume their tours from early 2015 onwards.
When hostilities broke out in mid-December last year and genocidal killings swept across Africa’s youngest country, were expeditions to Boma National Park and to Bandingalo National Park cancelled in the interest of clients’ safety, though reports reached that some of the semi-permanent camps were looted by combatants.
Said Bahr el Jebel in a communication received yesterday: ‘The southern 3 states (Western, Central and Eastern Equatoria of South Sudan are at peace. The uprising by David Yau Yau that affected us in 2013 has ended. We plan to re-start safaris in January of 2015 staying to these states. We will be operating from a mobile camp with equipment brought up from South Africa. There will be no permanent camps.
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Bahr el Jebel has for a number of years offered one of the few reliable options to see the big migration of close to two million White Eared Kobs, Tiang Antelopes, Mongalla Gazelles and other species which move from their two main grazing grounds in Boma and the Sudd to congregate at Bandigalo in search of pastures, similar to the migration of the wildebeest and zebras between the Serengeti and the Masai Mara.
Feedback from the parks has been absent since the outbreak of fighting amid reports from other sources in South Sudan that game has been poached by combatants and villagers in need of food, as the regular food supplies became erratic and work on farms was interrupted by often rapid advances and retreats of troops. While there has been no indication that apart from the initial wave of looting three has been any other military activity near or in the parks, has Bahr el Jebel shown good judgment to wait for another half a year in the hope that stability can be restored across the entire South Sudan. For future updates on the resumption of expeditions and safaris in South Sudan make sure you watch this space or else periodically click on www.bahr-el-jebel-safaris.com
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Very bad in indeed, South Sudan would have these days show casing the immigrations of the Dinkas, the Nuers, Anuaks and Murles and their animals such as tiangs, different types of Ngeer, kobs etc to the main Nile tributaries to get their share of their gods given water and everybody else.
After the greenly and grassy plains run dry for in summer for one until the next rainy seasons for everyone in the plains to spread himself and its self out.
But now, our people will again resort to killing our animals for food to survive as an alternative. Shame on us.