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My colleagues and I made
our way to the compound of a Member of Parliament in the country’s
troubled Jonglei state. We were there to meet with several people who
had sought refuge from violence in the town of Pibor. People like Mary.
On Friday night, the last of the humanitarian workers in Pibor town were
evacuated by UN helicopter as South Sudanese forces roamed the dusty
streets, attacking civilians and looting anything they could carry.
Voices of Haiti captures, through words, photography, and song, Haitians navigating seemingly insurmountable challenges.
There are roughly 4,000 ‘citizens of nowhere’ in the United States
today. They are from Kuwait, Burma, the former Soviet Union and
Yugoslavia, and many other places. Legally speaking, however, they don’t
belong anywhere.
The numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons in South Sudan continue to
grow, and the longer people spend away from their homes the more
conditions deteriorate.
