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Akec Tut, “We are depending on the leaves of the trees”

NYINTAR, 4 April 2012 (IRIN) - Akec Tut is among 110,000 civilians who fled Abyei when the contested region on the border between Sudan and South Sudan was occupied by Khartoum’s troops in May 2011. full report

SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Time running out for “forgotten” refugees

 JAMAM, 3 April 2012 (IRIN) - Under the sweltering sun, women at Jamam refugee camp, in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, dig through the clay of a dried up waterhole in their search for water. full report

Briefing: Sudans' border clashes

 JAU, 29 March 2012 (IRIN) - Borderland fighting between Sudan and South Sudan broke out on 25 March, raising fears that the fragile peace that has more or less held since a 2005 accord (CPA) ended decades of civil war, could break down entirely. full report

SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Hamid Yussef Bashir, “People end up fighting at the water point”

 JAMAM, 27 March 2012 (IRIN) - Hamid Yussef Bashir, 30, is one of around 37,000 refugees in Jamam camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, a place beleaguered by chronic water shortages, a diet of sorghum that refugees say is not enough, and where most residents are camped on a floodplain weeks ahead of the rainy season. full report

ISRAEL: Deportation looms for South Sudan migrants

 TEL AVIV, 27 March 2012 (IRIN) - Asylum-seekers from South Sudan living in Israel have until 31 March to return “home” or face deportation, but some have asked to stay, saying conditions are not yet conducive for their safe return. full report

SECURITY: LRA nurtures the next generation of child soldiers

 FARADJE, 26 March 2012 (IRIN) - The dilemma for Atati Faustin, 13, from Faradje in Haut-Uélé District, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is that although he misses his younger brother – abducted into the ranks of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) two years ago - he is also afraid of being reunited with him. full report

SOUTH SUDAN: World’s newest state offers little for thousands of returnees

 WAU, 21 March 2012 (IRIN) - They have returned in their hundreds of thousands, by train, barge, bus and plane, often after decades of war-enforced absence; but coming home to what recently, and euphorically, became the world’s newest state, the Republic of South Sudan, is often the beginning of yet another chapter of struggle and destitution. full report

SECURITY: Cracking open the LRA to better eliminate it

 DUNGU, 21 March 2012 (IRIN) - After seven years held captive by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), 16-year-old Apiyo Tabisa’s release five months ago in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) along with a dozen or so others was as sudden as her abduction from Uganda. full report

SECURITY: Fighting Kony with beer, spy planes and YouTube

 LIMAYI, 15 March 2012 (IRIN) - It is just before noon in the village of Limayi in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Half a dozen empty beer bottles lie scattered at the feet of five Congolese soldiers lounging in easy chairs beneath a mango tree. A freshly opened bottle is propped-up against an automatic assault rifle lying in the dust. full report

SOUTH SUDAN: Restoring a new country's vision

 JUBA, 7 March 2012 (IRIN) - Newly independent South Sudan has some of the highest blindness rates in the world. Endemic diseases that have been stamped out in other post-conflict countries are rife, and the only fully functioning eye centre is in the capital, Juba. full report

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