In the American Midwest, farmers used to load grain onto barges and send it upriver to the Chicago market.

One completed way station in Kosti, on the Nile, is being used for returnees who are forced to wait for barges to depart for Malakal and Juba.

When times are hard, people have to do things for themselves, and right across the world, Oxford, Omaha, Omsk, you can see an extraordinary explosion of urban farming, people taking over land, taking over roofs, turning barges into temporary farms.

Netanyahu s lack of self awareness is perhaps best exemplified in his interactions with Obama. He expects the US to offer Israel security assistance to face the challenge that Iran poses, even as he barges clumsily into Obama s political backyard and forges alliances with his domestic opponents.

The variance of 1,456,500 under this heading is attributable primarily to reduced requirements for the short and long term rental of commercial river barges, as the cargo movement requirements in the east of the country could not be supported by river transport, offset in part by increased requirements for military accoutrements as well as personal protection gear, including, in particular, ceramic plated anti fragmentation jackets.