A Sad Loss

Hi all,

For those of you who saw the news this a.m. you'll see that a USAID official and driver were killed in Khartoum early New Year's Day.

The USAID official is John Granville...a friend of mine and ownder of Cooper, the dog that I took care of a couple of times. John worked for the Democracy and Governance Bureau and had lived in Nairobi for several years covering southern Sudan. His death is a great loss to all of us. This is a photo of him with our friend Andrea at the New Year's Eve party.

The driver was Abdul Rahman. He was one of my favorite drivers...soft spoken, funny, and very helpful with my bad arabic, and had a smile that reached all the way to his eyes. He leaves behind a wife and a young child.