11月19日（土）あいにくの雨でしたが、深紅の紅葉が美しい大山へ行きました。BE’sは新人も多く、日本人6人と13人のツアーでした。私の担当は大山街道と大山詣り。山岳信仰についての研究もだいぶ進みました。
大山のモミジは大変豪華でした。今度は晴れた日に行きましょう！ただし、つらい登山がなかったので、ゆっくりと回ることができ、大変好都合でした。
大山カレーはご飯が山型。リーダーは服装も赤！
帰りに米国大統領選について訊いたところ、「ひどいものだ」と。Hillaryの敗因は？と聞いたら「Woman」と。びっくりして残念に思いつつ、まだまだ”ガラスの天井”
が高いのだと感じたことでした。
10年？7～8年ぶりかな？ムンバイで日本語教室の先生をしているBipinさんとそのご一家にお会いしました。Bipinさんの娘さんRuchさんのお婿さんは研究熱心の知りたがり屋さんで、難しい時事問題を食事中に切り込んでくるので、おかしかったです。でも最後に「Thank you for your knowledge!」と言ってもらいました。（この英語表現、初めてきいたけど。それにしても早口で、インド訛りがちょっときつかった・・・・。
肝心のBipinさんとは席が離れていてあまりお話ができませんでした。残念。
一生に一度はインドへ行かなきゃ！！
ドライブの途中、大きな虹がかかりました。懐かしくうれしいIngleさんご夫妻との再会。イングルさんは優しく厳しく温かく、でも日本で失くした大切だった”ネクタイ”も忘れないちょっとお茶目で頑固な英国紳士。Judithさんのパーフェクトなハウスキーピングにも、いつも心から感服です。
M.B.A.勲章 Ingleさん宅の居間 Moltonの月
Kensington High StreetからHyde Parkを歩き、Harrodsで買い物をしました。ロンドンの秋の色は少し暗く穏やかで、美しい！のひとことでした。(Harrodsの買い物の写真はShopping編へ）
（イギリスの人は写真を撮るのが↓）
友人たちに会いにロンドン、ヨークへ。大切な友人Annとのうれしい再会。小さいAdriは大都会に興奮気味。ずっと会わなかった英国の友人とも連絡が取れ、12年前に通ったヨーク大学の広いキャンパスを歩くこともできました。大切なヨークシャーの恩人をHelmsleyのご自宅に訪ねる時Yorkshire Daleに大きな虹がかかりました。帰りのMolton駅ではこの旅で一番心が動いた瞬間があり、思い出いっぱいの旅でした。
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 City of London |
 Hyde Park w/ Ann |
 Hotels |
 Theaters |
 Shopping |
 City of York |
 Yorkshire |
 The Green Park |
 Trains & Stations |
 Univ of York |
Internetの威力をまざまざと見せつけられる瞬間があり、この記事もそのひとつ。York大学でクラスメイトだった、南スダーンから来たでっかい、優しい男Anthonyが、未だに紛争まっただ中の南スダーンで元気に笑っている（少なくとも今年の7月は！）
英国北部の寒さに震えながら、愛する祖国の平和のためと、その博識を武器に明るくクラスのみんなを勇気づけていた。
教室での発言ではいつも、どんな短い発言でも必ず「In my country South Sudan」と枕詞のように、しかも話題を変えるたびにこのフレーズを入れるので、クラスメイトは、「わかったよ、そンだけ南スダーンを愛してるんだね」と、みんな笑いながら受けいれ（我慢し?）たものだ。Anthonyには、皆にそれを受け入れさせるほどの根拠、情熱と祖国への愛があった。
July 27, 2016 (JUBA) – South Sudan ruling SPLM party has nominated former transport minister Anthony Lino Makana as speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA), breaking an impasse that has delayed reconstituting the oversight監視, 監督body of the government.
The meeting at SPLM House in Juba on Wednesday was chaired by President Salva Kiir who also chairs the ruling party, and comes a day after the replacement of the former First Vice President Riek Machar by Taban Deng Gai
President Kiir, who made the announcement, said today decision is a new page for the fractured party.
“You now voted and four candidates from Equatoria were brought to the SPLM leadership. The leadership of the SPLM has selected honorable Anthony Lino Makana,” said Kiir, referring to his SPLM faction.
The party split into three factions at the onset of December 2013 conflict: SPLM In Government led by Kiir, SPLM In Opposition of Riek Machar and SPLM former detainees led by former Secretary General Pagan Amum.
Kiir said the SPLM factions has no choice but to remain united.
“If you are not united in this (SPLM) house, you will not be united in the (parliament) bigger house,” he further said, warning that “measures will be taken against dissent members of parliament” who vote against SPLM policies.
Sources in the meeting said the First Vice President Taban Deng Gai has accepted to nominate deputy speaker.
Oliver Benjamin, the head of information in the national parliament, said a special session to formally select the speaker in parliament will be convened on Monday.
“All members of parliament have been recalled to Juba to be able to attend on Monday August 1, 2016,” he said by phone on Wednesday.
According to the August 2015 Agreement for Resolution of Conflict in the Republic, the current parliament with 332 MPs will be expanded to 400. The SPLM IO nominated new 50 legislators, 1 from former detainees and 17 from other political parties.
Disagreement over which party to nominate the speaker stalled expansion of the parliament and commencing始める the TNLA.
(ST)
AnthonyはKirr政府の議会議長だ。
10/14現在、マーケットも開いたらしい。
FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016
South Sudan markets in Juba reopen after abrupt closure
October 13, 2016 (JUBA) – Shop owners in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, have resumed work following an abrupt closure on Wednesday, following false reports of Salva Kiir’s death on the social media.
People walk through a market in the southern Sudanese city of Juba January 7, 2011 in Juba – (File photo AFP/Getty)
Interior Minister Michael Chienyjiek issued a statement dismissing the allegation, describing them as rumours circulated by “criminals to use it as the opportunity to loot.
“Stay calm, and carry on normally. There should no fear. The president had already come out yesterday and you saw him touring the whole town yesterday. This was to confirm to the public that he is alive. What happened was another social media hoax”, said Chienyjiek
He commended various markets in Juba which resumed activities on Wednesday evening after few hours of abrupt closure. Traders and hawkers who had run away from custom market have resumed since 5.00 PM local time yesterday and were selling their goods normally.
Several markets such as Konyokonyo, Jebel and Juba markets have also resumed operation according to sources. Many residents claimed the run from market on Wednesday after some running without asking the cause. Others attributed the cause to a crackdown on money exchangers by the police.
“I have resumed work normally today. Yesterday my shop was closed because there was confusion allover. Some people were running unnecessarily. If you ask, no one would give a definite answer, Deng Mawien, a trader in Malakia market told Sudan Tribune on Thursday.
But while others were running due to fear stemming from rumours about the death of the president, others were running away from police measures banning money changers on the street in fulfillment of municipality order.
Police force launched an operation to crack down on U.S. dollar hawkers, causing them to flee the market. No gun shot was fired by the police when the police carried out the operation.
Earlier this year, Mayor of Juba City banned selling of U.S. dollars on the street of Juba, and ordered the police to crackdown on those selling dollars. Armed robbers attacked Konyokonyo market
SPLA Spokesperson Brig. Gen Lul Ruai Koang told journalists that people in Konyokonyo market fled when armed robbers attacked and robbed at gun point leading to the closure of the market yesterday,
He said that 3 robbers entered the market and started terrorizing people using pistols. Two of the robbers were apprehended and 1 is still at large. The two robbers, he said were later found to be foreign nationals.
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Ann’s Family