Facebook and Sudan

Saw it was a friend’s birthday and went to send a short note-only to discover that he is living in Sudan! We studied together in 97 in Spain, and then worked together on some projects in 98 on non-proliferation. Since then, it has been the random email to keep up. I told him we had to meet up and reconnect and we were able to see each other twice within a week as he was in Southern Sudan from Khartoum. He has retired from the Indian Army and is now with the UNDP as the Director of their DDR Program. On top of that, I smiled to find an article about him courtesy of Google which was featuring the love story of him and his wife in Reader’s Digest!