Keeping the Peace: A Five Year Journey in Sudan Beatrice Mategwa, Producer/Head of Television, United Nations Mission in Sudan and Yale World Fellow

The Council on Middle East Studies presents:

Keeping the Peace: A Five Year Journey
in Sudan
Beatrice Mategwa, Producer/Head of Television, United Nations Mission in Sudan and Yale World Fellow
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 12:00-1:20 PM
Location: ISPS A001, 77 Prospect Street

Beatrice writes: “I have been working in Africa's largest country, the Sudan, for almost five years as a video journalist. I
joined the peacekeeping unit with the United Nations Mission in Sudan at the end of 2005, but I previously worked for
Reuters Television covering the country at large. Through my work, I have watched the country emerge from conflict to its current state of relative peace - where former foes involved in a 20-year battle have been trying their best to honor a
peace agreement signed in January 2005. The transition to peace has not been easy, especially with the unrest in Darfur and the tribal conflicts which have emerged in the southern part of the country. Sudan is now preparing for its
first elections in over 20 years - expected to be held in April 2010 - and a referendum on southern secession that will
follow in 2011.”