| ME South Sudan '09 deserves to be in the Guinness Book of World Records |
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| Written by John Soul |
| Saturday, 10 October 2009 10:55 |
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JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN. Aheu Kidum Deng, Miss South Sudan 2009, is geared up to represent the Autonomous Government of South Sudan in the international Miss Earth 2009 beauty pageant. Aheu was earlier crowned as Miss South Sudan 2009 in Juba, the capital city of South Sudan. The event was attended by Agnes Lukudu, the Minister of Environment, Wildlife, and Tourism of South Sudan. Aheu’s participation to the environmentally-conscious pageant was confirmed by the organizers of Beauties of Africa, Inc., the franchise holder of Miss Earth South Sudan. Aheu, 18 years old and a bubbly high school student, comes from South Sudan's city of Juba. She stands 195.58cm (6 feet and 5 inches). She deserves to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the tallest documented beauty queen ever to take part in any international beauty pageants. She has been receiving numerous television show appearances, after bagging the Miss South Sudan 2009. In 2010, she will be in a world tour covering Asia, Europe, and South America as a spokesperson for South Sudan, following the Miss Earth 2009 pageant. South Sudan’s initial participation to Miss Earth was in 2008, when Nok Nora Duany represented South Sudan in the Miss Earth 2008. It was also the first entry of South Sudan in any of the grand slam pageants It can be recalled that the conflict between Sudan's Muslim north and mainly Christian south (South Sudan) was Africa's longest running civil war, until it officially ended in January 2005. The oil exploration and extraction from the majority areas in South Sudan has increased the government's revenue, nevertheless, it has also resulted in an alarming health condition due to the harmful effects on the environment and on the health of people who live in the petroleum-production areas. Aheu narrates, "While enhancing our economy, oil production has also had grave consequences for the environment; more than 10 to 20 billion gallons or 100 billion liters of toxic wastes and crude oil were discharged into the land and waterways of White Nile. The White Nile used by many communities that are close to oil fields demonstrated high levels of total petroleum hydrocarbons in the waters." She asserts that "the government should perform an assessment of the environmental condition in the White Nile region as well as to create and supervise the enforcement and implementation of a plan to restore the environmental harm that has already occurred and to control additional devastation." “The government should recognize the need for health risk assessments as a fundamental facet of policy development and evaluation, and should move at the forefront in mounting effectual mechanisms to impose the laws guarding the environment and the wellbeing of South Sudanese citizens,” she remarks. She further explains that “the oil companies should amend their practices to reduce environmental impacts in the White Nile region and to put up joint ventures with neighboring communities so that local residents gain from the development.” "Safety first for the people of South Sudan, we have suffered for several decades, it's time now for us to savor our land without any trepidation or a detrimental environment," she remarks. "As war becomes a memory, a land calls back its wildlife," she summates.
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