” “"A country split into two, waiting for true peace, whose people hope for a better future in which the violent mentality and gestures may be replaced by reconciliation". Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, archbishop of Khartoum, arrived from Sudan to take part in the WYD of Cologne, to help open the eyes of the young on one of the hardest situations in Africa. "Early this year, an agreement has been signed which should put an end to the war between the north and the south of the country, which has been going on for over twenty years. We have had two and a half million victims, almost twice as many uprooted people, refugees, homeless families with no chance of living. The social conditions in Sudan are extremely bad; tensions and old wounds add up to poverty and lack of water". (to be continued)
