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  • Grace walked for more than 10 days from a small village near Ezo to the town of Yambio. She traveled with her two young granddaughters whose parents were killed by the LRA. (Enough/Ledio Cakaj)
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  • A man displaced by the fighting from a village near Abyei, Sudan.  Michael Graham, June 2008.
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  • Boys displaced from Abyei play outside their temporary shelter in Agok, Sudan.  Michael Graham, June 2008.
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  • A woman who fled from Abyei.  Her children were separated during the attack and she has been searching for them for several weeks.  Michael Graham, June 2008
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  • Students during recess at a school outside of Juba, Sudan.  Returnees from the 17 year civil war face crowded conditions and a near complete lack of services in the capital city of South Sudan.
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  • A boy waits on the road near an aid compound in Agok.
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  • Several days after a storm dumped several inches of rain on Agok much of the town and living area of the displaced remains a muddy lake.  Such conditions greatly increase the risk of disease such as cholera, and severely limit the operations of NGOs and UN agencies that rely on dirt roads to deliver assistance.
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  • Many of the 50,000 displaced people from Abyei are being hosted in the homes of residents of Agok, but the large number of displaced means others must fend for themselves outside.  Plastic sheets provided by the United Nations are turned into temporary shelters, but provide little protection from the torrential rains of this part of Sudan.
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  • John, 12, fled the fighting in Abyei, and is still searching for two of his younger siblings in Agok who have been missing for weeks.  He fears returning home- he thinks there will just be more fighting.
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  • Children pass the time next to a muddy field at a military checkpoint in Agok, just 25 kilometers (10 miles) from the destroyed town of Abyei.
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  • Simon Dut in Agok, Sudan.
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  • Burned Areas of Abu Suruj: A close up of a portion of the February, 2008 QuickBird image clearly shows multiple remains of burned houses in Abu Suruj.  Courtesy of AAAS, copyright Digital Globe 2008.
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  • Downtown Abyei, May 17th, 2008.  The entire town has been destroyed and looted and its 30,000 residents displaced.  Photo courtesy Roger Winter and Ted Dagne.
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