Rapper and South Sudanese peace activist Emmanuel Jal was beaten and robbed Saturday by police in Juba, South Sudan, in an apparently unprovoked incident of police brutality, Jal’s publicist ...

Sudanese musician Emmanuel Jal was beaten senseless and robbed by police in Juba on Saturday. He was admitted to hospital and discharged on Sunday evening. The world-renowned artiste is visiting ...

Last month, Jal went back to Juba, his home city and now the capital of the world’s newest country—South Sudan. Jal decided to launch his We Want Peace Campaign on International Peace Day in Juba.

International hip hop star and renowned peace activist Emmanuel Jal was badly beaten by police in the South Sudanese capital of Juba last night on 8 September 2012.

10 Questions: Emmanuel Jal; 10 Questions: Emmanuel Jal. 8 minute read. MICHAEL BRUNTON. September 25, 2005 12:00 AM EDT. ... One group walked to Kenya but I ended up in Juba in south Sudan.

Emmanuel Jal’s story represents one of the more heart-wrenching and improbable paths to a happy and fulfilling life, let alone international fame as a musician. Now 32, he has just released his ...

Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Emmanuel Jal and Lam Tungwar at the Juba Peace Concert in 2012. Emily Wax-Thibodeaux is a reporter for The Post and served as the paper's Africa bureau chief from 2002 ...

Short dreadlocks, stylishly askew, frame Emmanuel Jal's face, aglow with a sheen as brown and smooth as coffee beans. His story as a Sudanese child warrior turned rapper is a tapestry of tragedy ...

asks Emmanuel Jal, one of Sudan's luckiest ex-child soldiers. ... Jal was involved with the SPLA's "Operation Jungle Storm" - a failed assault on Juba, the capital of southern Sudan.

In the war-torn region of Southern Sudan, Emmanuel Jal was born into the life of a child solider on an unknown date in the early 1980s. Through unbelievable ...