South Sudan dropped out of the news due to the assumption that ‘peace’ meant all was well – it wasn’t

While other catastrophes are important too, it is a foreign correspondent’s responsibility to keep shining a light on tragedies that have slipped out of the news cycle

The weather was so hot in the remote town in South Sudan where I have been camping over the past week, that the glue holding my Timberland boots together melted.

These industrial troopers have seen this reporter through Libya, Yemen, Egypt and Iraq. But on Thursday they died in a South Sudanese February, leaving me flopping back through the bush to camp.

This isn’t an important detail. But it might go some way to describe the extreme environment that people here grapple with every day.