South Sudan

Family portrait of the Mabior family.

Daughter of South Sudanese freedom fighters reflects on family and country

Concerned that her mother’s legacy would be forgotten, filmmaker Akuol de Mabior set out to create a new documentary called “No Simple Way Home.” It tells the story of Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior’s contributions to the liberation of South Sudan.

Internally displaced people form a line at a food distribution center at a camp for displaced people in Juba, South Sudan.

Amid calls for reconciliation in South Sudan, displaced people remain in limbo

Displacement
South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar Kiir attends the signing in Khartoum, Sudan of an accord with the South Sudan government aimed at ending the country's civil war, June 27, 2018.

South Sudan rebel leader to be reinstated as vice president as part of civil war peace deal

A young girl in Ganyiel’s health clinic watches her 3-year-old sister who is sick with cholera. Her mother brought her over from Tayar island to seek treatment in the clinic.

Cholera stalks ‘refugee islands’ in swamplands of South Sudan

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South Sudan

Tragedy in South Sudan — and $2.1 million for Washington lobbyists

Conflict
Turkana Women

Why some Kenyan villagers take AK-47s to fetch water

Culture

On the border with South Sudan, is a Turkana village called Loblono, in Northern Kenya. These Turkana people have survived for centuries in one of the harshest landscapes on earth, the dry-as-a-bone desert that also stretches across South Sudan and Somalia. They live a nomadic lifestyle based on herding cattle, chasing the rain and the grasslands that sprout from the desert when it’s wet.
The Turkana have always been in conflict with neighboring tribes, like the Poquot and the Taposas. But, in recent years, dwindling water supplies have exacerbated the conflict on this smallest of scales. On the border with South Sudan, is a Turkana village called Loblono, in Northern Kenya. These Turkana people have survived for centuries in one of the harshest landscapes on earth, the dry-as-a-bone desert that also stretches across South Sudan and Somalia. They live a nomadic lifestyle based on herding cattle, chasing the rain and the grasslands that sprout from the desert when it’s wet.
The Turkana have always been in conflict with neighboring tribes, like the Poquot and the Taposas. But, in recent years, dwindling water supplies have exacerbated the conflict on this smallest of scales.

Clean water a casualty of civil war in South Sudan

Host Hari Sreenivasan talks to Manyang David Mayar about the situation in South Sudan where flooding and unrest has made it extremely difficult to find clean drinking water.Host Hari Sreenivasan talks to Manyang David Mayar about the situation in South Sudan where flooding and unrest has made it extremely difficult to find clean drinking water.

Residents displaced by recent fighting gather at a trading area within the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in Malakal, in Upper Nile State.

Why three towns in South Sudan have ‘utterly collapsed’

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is the latest in a string of international officials trekking to South Sudan to try and pressure rival leaders to call a halt to their four-month long civil war. Reporter Andrew Green is in the capital Juba and tells host Marco Werman that he sees a sliver of hope in efforts to end the fighting.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is the latest in a string of international officials trekking to South Sudan to try and pressure rival leaders to call a halt to their four-month long civil war. Reporter Andrew Green is in the capital Juba and tells host Marco Werman that he sees a sliver of hope in efforts to end the fighting.

South Sudan shoes

How shoes can tell the plight of refugees in South Sudan

Conflict & Justice

Photographer Shannon Jensen found a dramatic way to illustrate the plight of refugees in South Sudan – with the shoes that they wore on their arduous journey.

Jacob Atem in 2012 with his step-mother in the village of Maar, South Sudan.

Sudan’s ‘Lost Boys’ get caught in their country’s violence once again

Conflict & Justice

Nearly 20,000 boys in southern Sudan were displaced or orphaned during the country’s long civil war. Many were resettled in the US, starting in 2001. Jacob Atem was one and he recently returned to the new country of South Sudan, only to be caught in the renewed fighting there.