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Article: As war becomes a memory, South Sudan calls back its wildlife.
- Article from:
- The Star (Amman, Jordan)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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By Stephanie McCrummenBOMA, SudanAuHe grew up here, became a rebel here, and one day recently he was flying low across this vast grassy savannah in southeastern Sudan, now a park warden pointing out big-tusked elephants traipsing across the landscape.From the window of the small plane, Kolor Pino, who is also a general in the former rebel Sudan PeopleAAEs Liberation Army, could see a few black ostriches and then a skittish mass of yellowish-brown kob, a kind of antelope. In a place where rebels and militiamen trained and fought for decades, where people suffered and fled and died, the sight amounted to a small mercy.AoThe animals are coming back,Ao Pino said, a note of ...