Twenty years ago, Juba, in South Sudan, was a small garrison town. Now, oil money and immigration have turned it into a precarious boomtown – but for many life has never been tougher
, leaving hundreds dead. The bullet holes were only repaired when Pope Francis visited Juba in February this year.But in 2018, Juba started to grow again. It is now hosting a unity government aiming to organise elections at the end of 2024. While instability continues in rural areas of South Sudan, Juba has been thriving, with freshly paved roads and improved services, a new airport terminal and a variety of buildings under construction.
Juba keeps spreading far beyond its limits on the west bank of the White Nile, where it was established by the British colonisers a century ago. A foreign creation from the beginning, Juba is quick at forgetting its history. Colonial-era landmark buildings are destroyed or transformed, such as the Greek-built Juba cinema that was turned into a church.
Juba’s main cattle market is in Gumbo district, which is also home to thousands of people from the Bor area in neighbouring Jonglei state Top left: Simon Anei Madut, a charcoal seller in Sherikat district; right, fish seller Esther Yom Mabior; bottom, women of the Sherikat fish market, who formed a co-operative and invested in freezers
Clockwise from top left: Hassan Gain, left, and Joseph Gurloch, community leaders at the Mahad IDP camp; vegetables and leftovers collected from Konyo Konyo market; camp leaders James Baboy, Roda Racho and Charles Nykuam; a man scouring the rubbish at the side of the street in Konyo Konyo district
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