Sudan: Establishing law and order in the South

Martin Lado, who was a captain in the former rebel movement in southern Sudan, looks at the pockmarked ruins of a prison he now runs and remarks, "It's as if we are still in the bush living under the mango trees." Only two buildings at Yei River prison survived two decades of civil war between the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army and the government in Khartoum, which ended with the signing of a peace agreement in January 2005. At night, male inmates are crammed inside one of the buildings to sleep; women prisoners are locked into the other. The war may have won the southerners some autonomy from the northern-based government, but it also destroyed what little infrastructure existed.