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around this area here at 5:00 everybody closes up cuz they don't want to get robbed so how many people in here we are seven people in this room $2 a month to be a soldier here that's what it is we were taken into this room with this Commander with a sign behind him that said Thank You Jesus what does this do it's like a yeah stimulant get too high they don't want to work they are just thinking of drinking alcohol only drinking yeah and crime yeah I've heard a lot of people around here are using certain drugs and a lot of alcohol is that true or what's the reality it Tes cigarettes alcohol and a glue the soldier said that you never know if there's drunk people who see a white guy and then take action there's
guys that bathe along here there's often crocodile attacks if you walk nearby it could be dangerous to you there we go look the guy before says one of his cows could sense that I was white so the cow bive we saw a guy walking out of a toilet with an AK-47 absolutely wasted drunk this would be like one of the most valuable cows at the market right because the horns are very large and so how much does this cow go for like you're standing here somebody can just come by come and grab the camera grab your camera go away what are you doing today I'm cooking alcohol alol do you like to drink wine so this is full of wine yeah is it's like moonshine are you forced to commit crime South Sudan the
world's newest country only gaining independence in 2011 and after gaining that Independence plummeted into Civil War South Sudan Civil War ethnic based violence 400,000 died 4 million were displaced that Civil War has now led to the near collapse of the country although fighting has died down in some areas of the country it continues to rage on in others hunger and malnutrition RI throughout the country South Sudan is the world's most dangerous country for an aid worker South Sudan is the most violent place in the world for Aid workers with humanitarians constantly being targeted tribal violence occurs every single day flooding has absolutely ravaged the country the people who live here have
never experienced anything like this my house is still underwater vast areas lie underwater I've wanted to go to South Sudan for a long time this trip has been 2 years in the making the world's youngest country is tearing itself apart Civil War has torn the world's youngest country oh I can leave and die here rapid descent into Civil War has broken but there isn't much you resurch alies can do your name my name d the near collapse of the country nice to meet you fighting each other this is where it gets very dangerous okay so made it through Juber International Airport arrived into the city here to be honest it's an absolute Mission getting into Juba let alone bringing a bunch of camera equipment the Visa situation is quite difficult I had
to provide a full list of all my equipment even down to the headphones I'm using that's how strict they are here due to political instability things like that with any form of camera equipment especially with me bringing microphones as I want to try and make an in-depth video series here you really have to have strong contacts not to get shut down or even arrested so UNICEF have been helping facilitate all the paperwork it's piles and piles of paperwork to just come in as I am with my camera so it's going to be quite the adventure I think even the filming permits don't work sometimes so we'll see what we come across it's going to be quite the adventure here in South Sudan
we're about to head to one of the busiest parts of the city right now let's go see what this place has to offer so we've arrived in this slum area here the streets are fast fascinating there's military everywhere long story short we pulled over on the other side of the bridge of the Nile here we were taken into this room with this Commander with a sign behind him that said Thank You Jesus we were questioned we gave him a paperwork you see what I was saying earlier it was already needed in the first 5 minutes of getting out the car now we've been given two soldiers to walk around the slum the soldier said that you never know if there's drunk people who see a white guy and then take
action so yeah we're going to have a look around we've arrived at this local pharmacy here and we're with the owner Josephine what about life generally living in Juba how is it these days life is not good at all not good things are expensive people are suffering they don't have money they don't have food they are sick they don't have the money for treatment and what about safety is it safe the issue of security is not good most especially youth they don't want to work they are just thinking of drinking alcohol only drinking yeah and crime yeah okay they drink they steal our things they steal your things yes so what happens they come and break in or at night they used to break during day time they used to
take by force really by force yeah like that with a knife or some they have knives others they have fers thank you for your time Josephine welome so we're here with our team and you're going to be keeping me safe here right you're going to be helping me out sure yeah this neighborhood here is one of the main slums next to the river here yeah it is uh this is the Juba Bridge live here is quite difficult you're seeing this is Islam just ad Jing to the Nile and sometimes they get dis loed by water if it rains heavily so it floods in here yes in South Sudan there's a lot of internal displacement right millions of people because of either floods or violence so you'll find lots of camps around things it's either
the flood or the conflict my name is Nick yeah your name a aor Dara daruka yes okay nice to meet you and what are you doing today I'm cooking Hol alcohol have you SE this wine it's wine yeah do you like to drink wine no or you sell it just to help myself to help yourself yes I'm not drinking wine okay that's why my children and my family so this is full of wine yeah that is wine this is already that's a lot of wine okay it's like moonshine exactly wow after that this is the sugar you put it inside the water how much does it cost for 20 L this 20 lit 10,000 yes 10,000,000 $15 for 20 L of wine exactly wow that's quite the price okay thank nice phone and are you using the phone you calling it working yeah it's okay
oh thank you so much very nice of you how many people live here how many people how many children do you have here I have three the relatives okay relatives so how many people in here we are seven people in this room okay this is where the alcohol is yeah I can smell the wine yeah smells good yeah very nice thank you very much Dua you're welcome nice to meet you thank as you can see here many people speak English as English is actually the official language of South Sudan which is really G great to interact with the locals it brings you a lot closer talking directly to that we've just had these two military guys shadowing us the whole time just keeping an eye on
us so to this local Street Abdul what does this do it's like a stimulant get too high no medicine do you like to eat this yeah the sugar yeah sugar mix it with the chewing gum and then some of that right and what does it make you feel like does it make you feel good yeah good okay yeah and how is life here in Juba for you fine no problem all good yeah good wonderful that's what I like to hear all right thank you Abdul he said it's medicine but I've always known to be more of like a stimulant drug right so what is it's actually drug it's a drug for the boys you see on the street and some of them are working long time building side they take it to keep them active like construction workers take it so they can work long
hours earn more money and is it addictive I would say it is the boys that they call the street boys or the kids that are on the streets who have left their homes they take this get like with a glue with the sniff so they mix with glue and they sniff that and these are the similar boys that we were talking about earlier that can sometimes Rob shops so around this area here at 5:00 everybody closes up cuz they don't want to get robbed yeah the shops here close at 5 if you're not careful they can snatch your phone they can snatch your money like you're standing here somebody can just come by come and grab the camera grab your camera go away it's quite common they are yeah very common
so it's like one guy on the front and one guy on the back and the guy on the backround it and then they dve the other one rides for us the away beautiful bike did you paint it you painting no yeah ah cleaning a lot though yeah just cleaning right what was your name called s sorry sahad nice to meet you mate thank you all right these are massive avocados from Uganda they're so big so we've met some of the street boys that I was talking about earlier uh these are the boys that have to leave the towns from outside Juba because their parents can't really afford to look after them so they come in here and they kind of live off whatever they can really and you know a lot of them unfortunately have uh turned to drugs
like glue this area here a lot of them have actually left during the day they go to a neighborhood close by which is quite reasonably dangerous a lot of them are drinking moonshine and sniffing glue so it gets quite unhinged at night time a lot of them come over here and a lady we met before use the words that they take over going to meet some of them asking the question and hear their side of the story and why they've been you know pushed to such extremes do you come from outside the city it's from war State how far is that is about 600 km 600 kilm and why do you come here
he left home because he's disappointed with the parents because they sold the cows and he was left alone he didn't have a cow for him so he protested by leaving home so in Tradition do parents normally give a cow to their children so that they can you know afford a life ideally a child would at his age be taking care of the wealth of the family he's the one keeping the cows for the family he's calling for the people at home to send him some money for him to be able to go back home but they're not responsible I've heard a lot of people around here are using certain drugs and a lot of alcohol is that true or what's the reality I it takes cigarettes alcohol and glue obviously you've had some horrible
experiences you know living around here on the streets and having no family for support so what do the drugs give you how do they make you feel does it make Escape I take this drugs because nobody is responding to me so I can live and die here like this when I have drunk and I have smoked I only look for food and it's not something I buy I don't have money to buy food I just look for leftovers from the restaurants because it's a hard situation are you forced to commit crime if he doesn't have food then he goes to collect garbage sometimes collect the empty water bottles and then that can make him make some money I have tried to ask whether it has happened that some of them get tempted into
committing crimes like is stealing some people's things and they seem not to admit that so I asked whether any incident has happened when they have been suspected of anything they have stolen and indeed they say yeah they sleep in the open sometimes in the rain and then people come and arrest them suspect them in 2018 he happened to have been arrested he was in prison he was suspected of robbing somebody and you had to go to prisons for 4 and a half months in 2018 such a hard life and they got Cuts all over them all over their legs and then we went and met another group of them which another one of the street kids brought us over and took us to meet his friends really didn't like
that then they all started fighting and you can see the cuts on their face and things cuz they're just constantly either fighting each other or being beaten by shopkeepers or police cuz they're just constantly into crime they had a strong smell of alcohol on them and abandoned by their parents neglected so they have to come into the City and they just get caught up into the to the wrong things so we just pulled over at a petrol station here South Sudan actually has extremely large oil reserves some of the largest in subsaharan Africa right South Sudan economically and with food and security the big issu what's the deal with the P natural situation then if there's so much money but there's so much food insecurity and
poverty then what's going on you have South Sudan as a country that is exporting oil is the prime uh product for the country this is the number one thing that the country produces number one export by far astronomical exactly nothing else exactly South Sudan depends on oil that is transported in from Kenya and Uganda and so you find prices are high 1 liter is selling at $1.5 to $2 do you know the average salary the lowest salary ranges from 1,500 for example a soldier on monthly basis monthly what's that like $2 a month to be a soldier here that's what it is that just proves why nobody can afford food and you're so heavily reliant on Aid right the most Reliant country on Aid in the
world absolutely South Sudan doesn't have a refiner South Sudan exports through the Sudan where it is so refined and then has to import the ready fuel for use S Sudan's economy is 100% Reliance on Sudan like most of the refineries and then it gets exported through the Red Sea for the oil importation it comes from East Africa we import fuel for vehicles for generators and for General use cuz you can refine it yourself but we export the crude oil right so this is the that's why I was saying it's an interesting Paradox yeah because you have the oil you're producing it and then you have to import it isn't the government currently building two refineries those have been mentioned but it is not forthcoming and
is that a common theme in South Sudan undelivered promises well that's it's a reality that's what it is somebody pulled over on a motorbike with handcuffs strapped to their waist wearing plane clothes and he worked for the government and uh basically what we got taken away to a local governmental office we had to wait for I don't know half an hour or so to an hour to present all these documents getting questioned like I said at the start of the video again it's proving to be uh not the easiest to film here but luckily with the accreditation it's very necessary I think coming here without that paperwork I would already have been sent out the country within the first 5 minutes of stepping out of the car like you saw today while we were at this
governmental office we saw a guy walking out of a toilet with an AK-47 absolutely wasted drunk he was like stumbling and tripping and he was like throwing rocks at Goats while he was a full AK-47 it's the middle of the it's not even lunchtime yet so actually give you a sign of kind of the situation here so we've just come to this local restaurant here there's a sunken boat there from the research I did there's a few different stories ranging from that it simply came off the Rope up the river here other ones say that it was sh from
the other side of the river during the war there's many different theories quite the scene here you know you can sit here eat your lunch and look over the beautiful River Nile here everywhere is heavily fortified with heavy security obviously with the current state of the country and obviously the very recent past with the Civil War it's very unstable place so I guess you just never know when something can happen but so far in Juber it's feel felt okay those young guys that were on drugs and things at the end one of those kids he didn't want to actually say it on camera but one of the kids he said that he was actually a Child Soldier in South Sudan there's many issues with kids being
taken away from their parents at a young age to be forced into being soldiers whether that's for Rebel groups or whatever it's extremely Grim so you can see the sign here and there's guys that bathe along here there's often crocodile attacks as that reminder where we are deep in Africa so we've come into this residential neighborhood and our team is this quite a common living conditions for people in juba this kind of situation here yes you even have some people keeping goats others are keeping cows in their inside their living room yeah this is because they may be raided cuz cows have extremely valuable in South Sudan right exactly they are you were saying before sometimes cows can
cost5 $8,000 if it's a prime cow exactly if I meet a nice South Sudanese girl and I want to marry her my best chance is to find the most expensive beautiful cow and offer that exact that's how it works this is obviously the lower economic living situations but I've heard that people with more money 10 to live in hotels is that right yes five star hotels 100 to3 and $400 per night for night and who lives in there mainly like politicians or yeah mainly if there are tourists coming to the country you don't get many tourists no you don't Okay so we've come into a local shop here and we're with and what are you selling here cow food yeah you're a Muslim man yeah I'm Muslim okay and how is it being Muslim in a majority
Christian country do you get along well with everybody there are no big challenges to do with the religion so when it comes to their interaction with the community there are no issues of religion life is difficult people are seeking their house and they have nothing to eat but what do you do this is how you struggle at the end of the day to have something on the table for your family this is what she's selling to make ants meat this is ground nut paste what's ground nut it's the same ground nut that is made into Plum peut that are given to Mal norish children so this has high food value this one is 100 is basically like 10 or 20 cents
yeah so that man with the cows that you just saw a lot of the time he's walking for miles and their legs were tied so they can't run away from him but he's just walking straight down the middle of this busy road with his cows heading towards a cow Market cows are a huge part of the culture and basically the uh economy of South Sudan so you can see here people cleaning up the street and uh that's just outside their shop so they're just voluntarily picking up the uh rubbish there's you can see there's lots of rubbish here on the streets just like many countries in Africa and for the locals take it upon themselves to try and make their shop look you know a bit nicer this is a local bakery here
and you know just making an effort so we've just arrived at this huge cow Market if you want to get the woman of your dreams then you got to come forward with the good so you know Long Horn cows the longer the Horn uh the more valuable and you'll give sometimes hundreds of cows to a woman's family uh sometimes it can be 30 sometimes it can be 100 more depends you know how much you want to show your Devotion to the woman so the man here in the blue this is his cow which is a sale which is
I think this would be like one of the most valuable cows at the market right because the horns are very large and so how much does this cow go for oil it's $600,000 which is $1,000 $1,000 right they make some profits and that's why they are interested in continuing in the business the cow industry is one of the best way for you know the common man to make money right so many people get into it is actually the source of uh livelihoods for many some of the cows like there's a cow over there now running around and somebody's chasing it is there injuries here because sometimes the cows can run away or charge people no is it common for people to get injured they can be dangerous and you
have seen even with the long shars yeah so if you are not used to it like if you walk nearby it could be dangerous to you but the owner knows how to caress it and right there look and the guy before says that the one of his cows could sense that was white so he uh the C was a bit aggressive was aggressive saw you a stranger so they can different even for some black people like myself who are not used to them they know the owners they feel the energy exactly right exactly okay well I hope that you sell your cow today thank you luck you guys have to let me know if one of these cows is going to charge me cuz I can't see uh so in some parts of the country there's actually what are called cattle Raiders they go around with weapons and they steal cows so like
cow Bandits so this it's a huge industry here you bought cows for your wife's family yeah the tradition requirs that so I mean before thinking of marrying Somebody's Daughter what comes to mind as part of the planning is you know okay if you want to marry do you have the cows that are needed how many cows did you present for your wife I paid at the time it was over 80 18 80 8 80 so I have to have somebody that I have trusted to keep them for me and then I will continue buying so I have to assemble them you build them so when I know I have up to 50 cows maybe with friends and relatives and then you start planning the more beautiful and the more tall the woman The More Cows and the
better the cows you have to provide right exactly so if it's like a absolutely beautiful woman then you have to come through with the best of the best exactly okay but then it's now changing because even for an educated girl this one is friendly for an educated girl uh you really have to pay more for education and for all that so although he has a University degree then more CS exactly beautiful shukran Shan Let's go people shout kaaja at me which means white guy that guy said Kaja welcome back it was really great to get a feel for the city of dubber the capital city of South Sudan today it's quite hard to find any kind of footage of this place of kind of General Life and things so very interesting to see you know what
it's like on the streets and things obviously without the paperwork we were checked many times and there were undercover government people showing up on the back of motorbikes with handcuffs that had been called and told about our whereabouts and that we were filming and things so it is very strict so very fortunate that UNICEF has facilitated the paperwork for this see you in the next video we're going to go into a different part of the city there's this huge makeshift slum camp area so that should be pretty interesting to see obviously a huge part of this country is the food and security being one of the most Reliant countries of Aid in the entire world obviously there's very dark
parts of this country we saw some good vibes today you know some people struggling as well obviously but then some people telling us that they have a good life interesting to see both sides a lot of violence in different parts of the country this is the most secure part of the country we will be venturing out of Juba later in the series thank you so much for watching great to be back in Africa and in case I don't see you good afternoon good evening and good night
