Juuji Frute: There has been surprisingly little trouble for the UN convoys and other humanitarian aid traveling the dusty roads of Yerbouti as they deliver food supplies to towns and villages throughout the war torn country. Here in Juuji Frute, a village of a few hundred residents located about three hundred kilometers northeast of the capital, two of the familiar white trucks pull into the village square. The village women turn out in droves to help unload the trucks and quickly pile sacks of beans, rice, flour, sugar, salt and other staples in a communal building designated to hold the supplies. This food will supply the village for the coming month or two, during which time crops will be planted and life will begin to return to normal.
Village resident J'ronga talking with one of our reporters
"We will be well fed during planting season," says J'ronga, the stocky woman who seems to have taken charge of the process. "In no time, our husbands, those lazy good-for-nothings, will return to the village as well." Most of the men, it seems, all ran off during the civil war. They have not been seen or heard of for years.
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In other news, the Yerboutian government in Wacca Jawacca has announced that it will soon be ready to begin training recruits for the Army and the National Police again. Further announcements will be made as to where interested parties should report for examination. The Combined Armed Forces of Yerbouti, once composing several thousand men and including land, air and naval units, was ravaged in the civil war and along with the rebel armies lost most of its men and equipment.
Foreign militaries have moved troops into Yerbouti to help keep the peace while the country is in the process of rebuilding. Most of them have been invited by the government of Yerbouti, including UN forces from a variety of countries.
"We are very pleased at the rate of redevelopment," Buta Moutaheditha, spokesperson for Interim President Charles Aygotcha, told our reporter. "Within a year we will be able to sustain ourselves and defend ourselves once again, until the next crisis." Chief economist Shomy da'Muny reported that the pokah t'ship, the national currency of Yerbouti, is already once again showing a positive value and is registering at 5/8 of an American cent per t'ship in international trading. "It is very inspiring," he stated, clearly close to tears with national pride.
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