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Uganda's Bidi Bidi refugee camp, shown here on April 5, 2017, is now home to 285,000 residents, nearly all of them having refugees from South Sudan's civil war.

Turning the world’s largest refugee camp into a ‘big city’

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The Bidi Bidi refugee camp in northern Uganda is now home to about 285,000 residents, nearly all of them fleeing civil war in neighboring South Sudan. The settlement is already larger than most Ugandan cities, and it’s probably not going away.

A South Sudanese refugee girl, displaced by fighting, arrives at Imvepi settlement in Arua district, northern Uganda, April 4, 2017.

More South Sudanese children are fleeing their country alone

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An armed man walks on a path near the village of Nialdhiu, South Sudan

Online fake news and hate speech are fueling tribal ‘genocide’ in South Sudan

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A wounded child undergoes medical treatment in Juba, South Sudan, Dec. 28, 2013.

This South Sudanese school trained a medical corps amid civil war. Then the gunmen arrived.

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