72 hours in Most Dangerous country in Africa / South Sudan / Mundari People and Cow Urine Drink

You know, we were driving around minding our business and out of nowhere these guys showed up, hey, you have room in your truck and they were in before we blinked, let's go, they said, they asked where we were going, no, they didn't care. As we drive, I guess they'll get off when they decide it's time and these are some serious guys here, check him out, this kid has a machete big enough for a Hulk and this friend here has an assault rifle. Not a Kalashnikov, it's a real deal a real Kalashnikov and today I will take you to a place where lifestyles have not changed much since long before the 21st century, a place where a city is nothing more than a place in nature with a A bunch of sticks on the ground to tie the cows during the night while

people

sleep on the ground next to them.

There are no houses or cabins of any kind. Two rows of sticks on the ground and a bunch of sticks on top of them, and here you go. See, the bed is ready and this guy is going to spend the whole night here in this bed to make sure that no one can get close to his cows or steal any of them. Cows are the local currency. Cows are exchanged for rifles, machine guns and even. women and you know what happens if a woman decides to divorce her husband who gave her his cows, but when the woman who has married at a discount should also attack Freedia,

people

here

drink

cow blood, rub ashes on the cow skin and they massage their cows twice a day and even blow air into their vaginas to increase fertility look well, they have a really badass machine gun hidden here like that, like in a war movie, like they're planning on fighting to an army or something like that. machine gun look at this look at the ammunition belt oh heavens damn me like I don't know it's like they're guarding Fort Knox here here I'm going to try a dish that's even stranger than the dog meat I tried In North Korea, she He's putting cow

urine

in the yogurt.

I will also show you the strangest and creepiest city you have ever seen, which has been built by the locals in a cemetery. Here you can see a group of children playing and see what they do. You're standing on a tombstone, you see, and everywhere you look there's this camp or a town and a bunch of people living in it, this is crazy and today I'm probably in the coolest place I've ever been. It is home to the tallest people in the world who sleep next to their cows and wash themselves with fresh cow

urine

. No joke, they are also always alert in case any rival tribe tries to attack or start a fight and have their kalashnikovs and machine guns. ready and they have many of them, this is the adult to show you how people live in the

most

fascinating tribe in the world, the World, dear friends, subscribe to me on patreon, only on patreon you will be able to access my videos that are not available.

Elsewhere, I will start live streaming for you on Patreon very soon and all my new reports will be posted on Patreon before YouTube. If you would like to make a donation to support my team, you can do so through PayPal. The links in the description see these guys running around with guns. Look closer. Two of them have assault rifles and two more are armed with Kalashnikov hand-held machine guns that are capable of firing 150 rounds per minute. They are the machine gun of choice for at least 20 armies around the world lethal killing machines the guys are in a hurry bringing guns with them to protect their assets look how many guides are rushing to interfere you know why because at a wrestling tournament the guy representing his tribe just lost to a guy from another tribe and it was some kind of setup the two were unfairly matched and here people take it seriously you can shoot shots wrestling is the

most

popular sport in South Sudan and pride of their people and the athletes are the heroes and if anyone is harmed, the entire tribe will remain.

To them, everyone is nothing short of spectacular. The fighters walk towards the crowd like Conor McGregor towards the octagon, only with real leopard skin on their shoulders and a real cloak about five meters long. The cheerleaders blow their horns and the wrestlers continue to wave their arms. warming up vigorously or maybe trying to scare the opponent, the local reporters are here recording it on the phone and check this, the temperature is 104 Fahrenheit and this guy in a formal suit and formal shoes is a reporter on an assignment that this fighter started with a dance routine. although there was no music and suddenly he started jumping here there is another curious tradition a man approaches the wrestlers and hits them with a stick pointing at the ears foreign supporters the athletes with a high pitched song the men play the drums the women in bright clothes They sing songs of encouragement the boys with machetes dance to the cheerful melody the rest of this physique is really outstanding they have such unusually long arms that they reach almost to their knees they touch the ground to sprinkle their sweaty hands with sand and the fight begins like the fight progresses emotions rise it's more than a wrestling competition it's a fight between two tribes who are fierce rivals who wanted to show their good and fight just for sport I guess the wrestler wearing a leopard skin represents the largest community in Sudan from the South, the Dinka people the president of the

country

is Dinka the guy in blue represents the Mandari tribe the fight is so intense that the reporters have to take their things and step back but everything is under control for the moment next on fight is the Dinka wrestling champion the The guy is over seven feet tall, he is as big as Bigfoot, for some reason he faces a guy who is visibly almost twice his size, he fights fiercely, the smaller guy tries perform a lateral maneuver but fails because the bigger guy is much bigger and there is no It slips out of his hands when it becomes clear that the giant Dinka is about to win.

The mandari rushed to the battlefield. All the judges, the reporters, the cheerleaders, even the fans with bubizellas and all hell starts to break loose, guys with sticks and Spears Rush. From all sides foreigners armed with pistols, rifles and machine guns, all those who were not prepared to fight left the ground and, judging by the sounds we heard from the distance, things became serious. A friend of mine, Dimitri Yanchuk, saw what happened there during the wrestling competition. When it was over I went back to the camp and then I saw the local guys, you heard the shots, the local guys grabbed their guns and ran over there, it was clear something was happening, the next day we found out that two or three of these guys were killed in That fight and many were injured happened just a week before the Mandari camp my film crew was visiting was attacked, it was around 8pm. m., we were now planning to reach our destination around 2 p.m. m., right, and I have no idea when to finally get there because we've been driving in circles across these vast African plains, the locals call it the bush because it's full of bushes and bushes and well, I have no idea of where we're going or why and you know, not even the you.

I know I asked the driver here, he's a big talker, so I asked him, hey buddy, how far do you think we are from the campground and he said look for me? I have no idea and here we are making a stop again. This has happened more times than I have. I can remember that every time we stop it is because we have taken the wrong road, we will have to drive all the way back or because of a flat tire or an overheated engine to reach a cattle camp in the world. most fascinating tribe, we had to drive about 200 miles from Kopeta to Teraka, a community in Central Equatoria, the town of Telekeka in South Sudan is the closest thing the Mandari have to a capital city and the problem was that my team got here just after the rainy season, which effectively meant that many dirt roads were no longer there, flooded and washed away when our convoy first made a U-turn.

I thought it was okay, we just took a wrong turn, it happens to anyone, but then it happened again and again and then we started to feel like we were driving in circles all the time. I think it's not because of the rains. The roads are confusing, so they thank you for the correct word. How far do you think we are? Maybe an hour, an hour, and that's what they've done. They've been telling me for at least five

hours

that we have one more hour left. Well, it's the locals I trust the most around here. From time to time we see some people, sometimes even settlements, but we can't just get there. a stop for the night because it's not done that way here, everything has to be pre-arranged at some point, everyone we passed was nodding enthusiastically and pointing in the same direction, so I started to feel like we were finally on the road correct. track like woohoo will soon be there and you know, we had to come back for the umpteenth time personally.

I stopped counting a while ago so our trip has been going this way, we drive and drive and then we stop because there is no road ahead, that's what happens almost every time we get to the end and then we say Oh okay , wrong way, there are so many mistakes here, everyone is getting tired, even the drivers, all the local guys started attacking each other at some point, one driver got out of control and started yelling at our guide Isaac, he's been with us since the last project, stop lying to us for about an hour, tell us the truth, how much time do we have to drive?

Isaac then managed to talk a local guy into traveling with us and showing us the way which gave everyone some time. I hope, however, that 10 minutes later we will reach a flooded place again. Oh my god, how did it end up this way? midnight and look what happened to our truck it's stuck no it almost drowned in the mud how crazy is it that I decided to check the road in front of us on foot and then I heard this truck coming towards me very fast there is no road just here bushes and They were speeding off the road so I thought I'd better get out of their way to avoid getting hit and when I took a few steps to the side I got stuck in the mud up to my knees and then I fell, almost sank, I lost my stuff, I was swearing, screaming, stop the truck because it was coming straight at me through the bushes, it was coming and I got stuck in the mud, come on, come on, come on, come on.

Damn, just look at this, you see it's a swamp, no less, the truck is halfway in the mud. Our convoy started making stops every time we saw a flooded place ahead, the guy in charge, all covered in mud, would explore the road on foot and then say. Drivers which way to take was certainly time-consuming, but it seemed like there was no other way to progress. Basically, we had to make those stops every 10 minutes or so. The boys use sticks to check how deep the mud or water goes. It's 3pm. m. on the clock, we're nowhere near our destination and instead we're driving in the middle of fucking nowhere, it's already 4am. m., we are in the middle of the African savanna or not in the savannah, whatever it is, I guess in the African plain and we can't find the way we got lost here we don't know how to get to the camp so we park the trucks to form a perimeter to protect ourselves from the wildlife and we set up tents inside right where we stopped we decided to sleep for a couple of

hours

until dawn and then continue looking for the path towards our chances.

That is, terakaka. An important thing that we must do here is to put a mosquito net here, because the number of all kinds of mosquitoes and insects here is amazing and many suffer from all kinds of unpleasant diseases like yellow fever or anything else, which is why you have to take precautions and keep them away from the skin, so I will sleep under this mosquito net like a princess in a canopy bed. many of us are here we are many but uh many people who come from outside I came here with my children to eat meet Farina Jandy this girl cleaning the pot with the rug is basically the only help she has this woman used to live with her husband in the camp at that my team is trying to get there, but then he died and the woman can survive alone in the desert, so we went to Juba to find a place to live and we ended up here in this cemetery.

Yes, you heard it right at first glance. This place looks like a typical slum, but if you look closer you'll see, for example, that this guy is sleeping on the floor while his head rests on a tombstone. The cross is broken. The steel rods stick out. People use them as chairs. look at this guy sitting on a tombstone they are used as tables here a woman is making bean soup and places all her dishes on the surface of a tombstone here they also wash clothes makeshift sinks the toilet is also here they dig holes between the Tombs like the one this child uses now they sleep here too.

Look at the mattresses on the tombstone in the background. People come here from all over the

country

because many international organizations are based in Juba and people have established a kind ofcamp for displaced people. Right here in this cemetery that is still in use, you can see here the children playing and what they are playing on a tombstone and they put up all kinds of tents and structures here and this camp is really huge and has an incredible amount of people. Living here here look at this tent made of whatever they could find I guess and a piece of canvas for the roof, it's crawling with kids, look one, two, three, four.

I counted seven and these are just kids. I didn't count the adult, maybe a few. of them are the children from the house next door, but the general picture is more or less the same in all the tents. Plus, the people on the list live in here. I can see that this place used to have a top layer of asphalt, but it's almost gone now, so sometimes people sleep on the ground. They die in here, but we don't know what the diseases are like. We are going to do it to help them, but you can't help them.

Does it happen often, yes, how often, every day, every day? every day someone dies, yes, someone died in here, but we can't help them because you have some problem. I see the kids right now, you see. I know that something good right now I can't wear something good. At some point he goes naked. I see this woman with a bag. The bag makes strange sounds louder and louder, she unwraps the cloth and looks at what she has there, she got pregnant here and had her baby right here, where is your husband now? My husband is somewhere around there maybe Market, he works there once you were born here yeah. right here look inside we have only one bed and nothing else look only four of these nine children wear shoes many people walk barefoot here and here is the proof that the cemetery is in use here this person died in 2007.

Here lies Jonah Pataki, who he was buried in 2019 and there is a new grave here at the moment, but her husband still died right here, yes, but we take him from this village and they also take us outside to take her to the village. Every home has a water pipe. made of a plastic bottle or a jar or whatever they also have a hair salon under a tree the camp is divided into smaller neighbors and each one has a campfire in the middle and there are houses around the truth these are not houses They are just makeshift tents, stick some poles in the ground and make walls with plastic bags, you know, the big ones, like potato bags, international organizations deliver the aid in those bags so that people pick them up and use them to make tents.

Anywhere is legit to dry some. laundry here is someone drying their things a bag and a bra here someone is using a t-shirt as a blind except the window these are the clay ovens they use to cook the walls are very hard because of the fire inside this woman is cooking a grass soup and it seems like a magic potion here is another one that separates the meat from the bones on a tray the tombstone serves as both a chair and a table, yes, tribe or intestines, to be clear, it is a local delicacy and the food situation in general.

It's not very good here. How often do you eat? What are you eating? Do you have a problem with food? Only cereals. We eat cereals every day. We also eat cassava every day. That's all and where do you get the money from. You go to the market and ask people. Help sometimes people don't have money it's up to you how you manage and the truth is that there are also rich people in South Sudan who drive expensive cars when shopping in supermarkets that are no different from those in Europe or America the truth is that South Sudan has rich oil deposits, the country has as much oil as Canada, where people live like this, and Oman, where people live like this, and more oil than Australia, Great Britain or Denmark.

However, the difference is that the income from the oil business in South Sudan aligns. the pockets of just two men and their clans, the president, this guy in the hat and the vice president, the guy in sunglasses, while South Sudan has a lot of oil, there is a pipeline that can be used to transport it and sell it, and This pipeline continues through the territory of another country Sudan, South Sudan's main adversary, in fact South Sudan had been fighting for its independence from Sudan for decades and it finally happened in 2011, when South Sudan became a independent state, the first president of the country was and remains.

He is the guy with the salvation hat he is of Dinka origin the vice president of the country the guy with the umbrella Israel Machar represents the second largest tribe in South Sudan people from nowhere each of these two guys has a big army and they hate each other each other much like South Sudan I hate Sudan, a war broke out between the loyalists here and the loyalists here and it was a bloody war. The common people were told that the war was for the dignity of their tribes, but in reality it was a war between a man with a hat and a man with a hat. umbrellas to access the pipeline hostilities lasted five years and the land fell into chaos the loss of life is estimated between two hundred thousand and four hundred thousand people Millions ended up fleeing their homes and becoming displaced people the inflation rate reached 300 later out of all this these two guys made a deal they signed a peace agreement and even negotiated an oil contract with Sudan meanwhile South Sudan remains devastated by war seven million people are dying of hunger while the Republic has so many weapons in circulation that even a Fighting tournament could end in shootout 6 a.m. the sun is rising and now we can see how big this herd is because there are thousands of cows, there are cows everywhere and I am surprised to see that people live here also among the cows, look, here is a bed, people.

I just got there, here's another bed right in the middle of the pack and there the owner probably wanted a little more comfort and put some kind of sleeping tent under it. um, this tent here is, as I understand it, a VIP room, they drove in small poles. on the ground, they raised the walls and now there is a family living here and people protect themselves there from the rain as right now it is starting to rain and people come to hide here because it is the only place that has some kind of roof. one second, I'll clean the camera lens, so look five or six people.

I don't know, it's a big family and they live here and sleep here and everyone here has at least one Kalashnikov or more assault number AK. rifles in this place is amazing, like we were in a war zone. I haven't seen anything like this before anywhere where women get a full sunrise, put some coffee beans in a pot and mash them with a wooden mallet to make little kids knock out the coffee. under a tent, this little one is about three years old, he is not fully awake, but the older children are already awake and busy, they do all the hard work in the camp, they have to collect all the cow dung and take it to a place of land where women will spread it thinly.

The dung will dry under the sun and then burn it over a fire. The resulting ashes are used as an antiseptic. People clean their teeth with the ashes and apply them to their face and all over their bodies. They kill bacteria and keep bugs away The men start their day by preparing the cows in a strange way This is a type of bar that they give to their cows using ashes instead of water It's amazing how they not only clean the skin of each cow but also their horns and ears, even inside each ear, they are responsible for cleaning each cow scrupulously while the children run around covered in dirt, the cows are all clean, they are groomed and cared for like kings and queens, look how carefully this guy is cleaning this cow, making sure Make sure you don't miss a spot even on the cow's head and around its eyes and inside its ears holy cow cows are so important to these people that they sleep with their weapons in their hands so they can protect their herd at night look this guy with a scarf on his head is waking up the first thing he does is take out his AK rifle and the ammo he kept nearby during the night here is another man who was using an ammo box as a pillow this woman was sleeping on two guns if you look up close You will see that this bed can easily be used as a cover to hide behind and keep out external fire and also used as protection when fighting this thickness.

You also like this one better to guide you, yes, so that you can. hit with this, yeah, they have a really badass machine gun hidden here, like that, like in a war movie, like they're planning on taking on an army or something, a fucking machine gun, look at this, look at the ammo belt, jeez , I'll be Damn, I don't know, they're protecting Fort Knoxes, they finish the enemy edition a lot because the bullet can't be taken by pulling air, it's very powerful because it's very big, you have to buy it with the count of eight, yes, before.

It is given to you and then there is your plus and only one cow, are you subscribed to our channel? Not yet, the sad thing is that Anton can't move on to his next adventure until you do. Please subscribe now, that's right, go ahead and click subscribe. Done and thank you, we can continue now. Can you hear the sound of the cow? A whisper to the people here has a special meaning when they hear it. Oh, okay, a cow is urinating. They'll know they have to be quick, like Where's the cow? In what direction? she is urinating and they run there because they need to wash before the cow stops urinating.

This guy's name is gabri. He is a local teacher. He knows some English because his father sent him to school in Uganda. A slightly more developed country. Gabri is going to show. we, the morning routine of the local people, which is important here the older men smoke a pipe the children brush their teeth with ashes the men go to wash foreigner counts put your head under the stream of urine and wash your head if you can't find a cow urinating Today you will go to wash instead of a towel, they use cow tail hair, they also brush their teeth with cow urine, in fact, why not?

And they collect the urine in buckets in case someone misses peeing at some point, for example, this guy got up late, so He will use the collected urine to wash himself. The earlier you get up, the better the chances of taking a good shower because after the night the cows empty their bladders and produce a fairly strong burst of urine, so you can take a long shower. It is also hot while the air is cold at night. One of the advantages of this procedure is that the urine dyes people's hair a golden brown color. To get this wonderful color, they have to wash their hair with urine every day for a week and rub ashes in between. like this local beauty called kakulo, half the children here run around completely naked or half naked if they are cold they can always warm themselves on a bed of hot ashes the women are preparing breakfast cooking something well they just gave me a jar of fresh milk They just finished of milking a cow so it's fresh and that's fine, the thing is they washed the jar with cow urine, they washed everything with urine hair and you see, the fact that they washed it for me means they took extra care to make sure I drank . of a clean jar is a sign of respect and they believe that cow urine is the best cleaning agent in the world, so such an offer cannot be refused.

I must try this milk. This would be an appropriate response to the sign of respect that they are also showing me a sign of respect, so wish me luck. I'm going to try this milk. In fact, the milk is absolutely amazing, really amazing, it's so warm and so sweet. The staple food of the Mandari tribe is the soft cheese they make from cow's milk. They generally do not eat beef. I found some sources that say that the Mandari love their cows so much that they never eat them. This is not true, however, this local man who takes care of his hair very carefully checks the color of his golden brown Rico Drinker and I really like it, seriously, so this man is so rich that he hires security guards for his cows and guess how he pays them.

Can you ask them how much and feed them the meat? The truth is that not here. They don't care about titles at all, all they care about is how many cows you have. Cows are the greatest and only treasure of this tribe. Yes, you need the Urban series. It's so impressive how much they care about their cows. Look at this. Each cow has a designated position. At the location they are marked with sticks on the ground and they also put out these individual back scratching sticks for the cows, for example this stick is for a taller cow and this stick is for a shorter count, in fact they put two together sticks for this cow because she likes to put her head between them and rub it and meanwhile see how people live it's crazy they sleep like this next to their cows in the field where they sleep they see that strange structure made of sticks a kind of small tent campaign or something like that this is where people live if it rains they hide underneath if it's dry they sleep on top it's beyond imagination I'm speechless it's surreal I feel like I'm on another planet or something in another century maybe and it's gonehumanitarian organizations such as Doctors Without Borders or the Red Cross send many of these to South Sudan although these organizations provide much-needed aid to the local population their missions are attacked quite frequently in fact it happens so often that South Sudan is Considered one of the most

dangerous

places in the world to work, we are in a hospital in the capital city of South Sudan, Juba, the first What is noticeable is a sign prohibiting the carrying of weapons in the place.

There is also a sign with additional information explaining that fighting of any kind or shooting is not allowed in the hospital. In fact, the place is quite quiet. There is nothing out of the ordinary. One thing that probably stands out is how they upgraded the hospital beds, put a canopy over each bed and are obviously DIY, that's how they added the mosquito nets. In 2017, the Red Cross was forced to suspend its mission in some parts of South Sudan. South after the incident in which the organization's convoy of 10 vehicles was attacked and one driver died despite the fact that they had the most reliable and safest vehicles.

Powerful Land Cruisers like this one are the vehicles of choice for the international community's missions. Red Cross Committee in South Sudan Additionally, every time a Red Cross vehicle leaves the office, the driver must continue to inform an employee on duty whose job is to monitor all movements to ensure that everything is okay and that the vehicles remain on the road or if they have made an emergency stop or something else, each car has a transmitter here you can see one that transmits all the data about the movements of the car to the office and all this information is monitored in the office in real time to ensure that nothing bad happens to Red Cross staff on their missions.

I knew that people from all over the world come to work for the Red Cross when I was submitting my interview request with the organization's employees and my first interview is with Maria from Moscow, Russia, she is a lawyer and has been working in Sudan of the South for more than six months. My first mission in South Sudan was short, three months only when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. I worked remotely for a few months from Moscow and then I came back here in August and I've been here since then without a break Maria is in charge of the program that deals with a very serious problem in South Sudan which is missing people, different sources They say that there have been around four million people missing in the country since the Civil War, many people end up missing because there is no system to process their deceased and the remains in other countries the system is here, an identified deceased person is handed over to more important relatives if there is any chance to have them after that, the remains will be buried properly in South Sudan.

However, there are two or three forensic doctors at most and there are no more than five or six properly equipped morgues in this country, some of these are They are so small that they cannot hold more than 10 corpses at a time and there are only two morgues in the capital with capacity for 20 or 30 corpses each, but that is certainly not enough. Maria shares her office with the guy Kulan Mayan, who is a citizen of South Sudan. He was born in Sudan before the Republic gained its independence. Back then, Khartoum was the capital and it is still in another country.

Now, when the war started, Kulan's family had to move or. rather they had to flee he was only five years old there Batman by the then cartoon government if they could locate you in a particular town at that time they would send you and to know this plane they used to call them and know but I don't I don't know exactly what their names are now, but they are sent to bomb the people who live in that area because they were supposed to be harboring the rebels. Did you personally hear of any problems? Yes, it had the bombs and before we moved to this place called Nothinga we lived in Narus and Narus is not as mountainous as Nettinger at that time South Sudan was fighting for its independence and that conflict led the new Republic to the crisis from which Now he's just trying to recover.

The country is very humanitarian. problems that affect the population there is a lot of armed violence there are still areas where people die due to hostilities and that is very sad there are many people who suffer from extreme poverty many problems are related to the climate floods become a really big problem in the absence of proper infrastructure and logistics and many people suffer the consequences: they are often forced to abandon their homes and all their properties and look for a place to survive elsewhere, so Kulan's family moved to Kenya, it was a safe country that could offer food security and good education, he learned English and had every chance of having a comfortable life there living in Kenya.

I lived as a refugee. He did not live as a citizen of Kenya, but he knew that there is a place called a country, so he managed to find a good job. In South Sudan, as much as it is harder here, he worked hard to get a good education and it paid off. He now works together with Maria for the International Committee of the Red Cross. South Sudan is one of the countries that has the highest number of internally displaced people. who had to flee their homes for various reasons, such as armed conflicts and all kinds of violence or due to floods, migration is also a serious problem here.

If any of you are considering working for the Red Cross, check their website for open positions to apply for. You need to be fluent in English or French and you don't have to go to a very challenging place like South Sudan. In fact, you can start in your own country or even in your city. It is important for me to know where I am working. that I am doing something that helps ensure a better future for some people and that it is more than just working for the sake of working; It's the kind of work that is rewarding.

These are perhaps some big words, but it really is the kind of work that makes me feel like I'm doing something useful both in terms of my career and my life. As soon as Kulan completed his education, he left Kenya to go to his homeland, South Sudan, because I voted for the referendum and when I voted, I voted for South Sudan. and after that I think that was my most important decision. Yes, coming to South Sudan when I see that South Sudan has people like Kulan. I feel that this country has a future to look forward to and that one day it could become a prosperous place because it has people who are ready to help their countrymen despite corruption, hunger, poverty and other problems.

This was tied in with my show How People Live, O Stranger.