Emma rescued and adopted the eleven-year-old Emmanuel, who had by then spent five years with the SPLA. She smuggled him into Nairobi but was tragically killed a few months later in a 1993 car accident. McCune?s story is told in Deborah Scroggins? book Emma's War (Vintage). A major motion picture based on the book is in development with Tony Scott (Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State), with Nicole Kidman poised for the lead role.

After Emma?s tragic death in 1993, Jal attended school and started rapping. His music has given a voice to Sudan?s ?lost boys?, a generation of children affected by the civil war. Now a spokesperson for the Coalition To Stop The Use Of Child Soldiers, Make Poverty History and the Control Arms campaign, Jal recently met with Bob Geldof and UK Chancellor Gordon Brown, thanking them personally for their efforts to end poverty, and gave a storming performance at Live8.

Ceasefire, with Abdel Gadir Salim (Riverboat Records, 2005)

Africa Calling, DVD review

- 25 minute BBC radio documentary: www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/tx/documentaries/soldierboy.shtml

- BBC News article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4717515.stm
 
- Segment on PRI?s ?The World?: www.theworld.org/globalhits/2005/06/14.shtml