The Foreign Service Journal, March 2017

90 MARCH 2017 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY CATHERINE KANNENBERG n KHARTOUM, SUDAN Please submit your favorite, recent photograph to be considered for Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8” x 10”, or 1 MB or larger) and must not be in print elsewhere. Please include a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@afsa.org. S udanese children jump and run with excitement after the brief downpour that often accompanies a desert sandstorm, or haboob , near the camel market in Khartoum, Sudan, one of the hottest major cities in the world. This photo was taken through the window of a fully armored embassy vehicle with a Canon Powershot S5 IS at f/4 and 1/1000 sec. n Catherine Kannenberg, the child of Foreign Service parents, is a former psychology professor and the spouse of a retired career FSO. As a child, spouse and lecturer, she has lived in Venezuela, Ecuador, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Korea, Morocco, Ghana, Uganda and Sudan. She now works on outreach with AFSA, helping to educate the American public about the value of diplo- macy and development.