“South Sudan is doable. We are into the endgame now, and we need support to see this one through. It isn’t a thousand-year problem. It isn’t a hundred-year problem. It is a three to five-year problem, and then this goes away.”
“This” is the challenge posed by landmines and other unexploded ordnance littering the war-ravaged country.
Richard Boulter is the name of the British man making the bold claim. Yet we may want to take his word for it. He is, after all, Senior Programme Manager for the United Nations Mine Action Service, UNMAS, in South Sudan. He has also, in fact, dedicated more than 25 years of his life to all things going KABOOM!
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Source: Africa News