CANNES, France-Two tribes, the Didinga and the Logir, on different sides of a vast patch of fertile vegetation. Their cattle graze on that patch so the space must be shared, but each tribe cattle-raids the other and tit-for-tat conflict is constant.

This dispute that takes place in South Sudan echoes many others before it throughout history, it’s a old problem, the fight

Arriving early, anywhere, is winning. Sort of. On Monday my train, the first one out of Paris that morning, was held for four hours in Saint-Raphael, about fifteen miles outside of Cannes, after an electrical outage wreaked havoc at the Cannes Gare. Four hours later, the train started moving and we were in Cannes within moments. The same fate was awaiting those of my colleagues who decided to take a later train out of the French capital,