Sudan: Slow start to census

After living in Ethiopia for 14 years, Reak Chuol recently returned to his native Southern Sudan, keen to take part in a population census whose findings could influence the status of the region. “I am not sure why, for two days now, my family have waited for the enumerators to count us but we have not seen them,” he said in Malakal, Upper Nile State. “If they were short of people to employ, they should have recruited more.”