South Sudan is finally a real, independent country. Now its U.N. delegation needs a desk.
Bio: Monique El-Faizy has written for the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Marie Claire, GQ and Glamour and has been on staff at the NY Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, AP and the Bergen Record.
“Now we’ve been recognized, where are we going to sleep tonight?”
Miyong Kuon was walking back to the Doubletree Hotel at 51st and Lexington, where he and the rest of the United Nations delegation from the new nation of South Sudan had been staying, so he did, in fact, have somewhere to lay his head for the night. But behind his joke was a salient point. More
Posted on July 20th, 2011 12:50pm
