One Year Later: South Sudan’s Ongoing Conflict

JAMAM, SOUTH SUDAN – JULY 17: A Sudanese mother suffering from malnutrition holds her son who is also underweight as they get medical care at the MSF ( Medecins Sans Frontieres ) field hospital July 17, 2012 in Jamam refugee camp, South Sudan.

 Sudanese Refugees Face Worsening Crisis

A year after achieving its independence, South Sudan is wracked by instability and concerns over the frailties of its fledgling government. A refugee crisis, sparked by neighboring Sudan’s brutal crackdown on rebel militias north of the border, …

 One Year Later: South Sudan’s Ongoing Conflict

A year after South Sudan declared its independence, intractable problems remain: tribal conflict, oil disputes, corruption, hunger and continued fighting. New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson traveled to the remote Nuba Mountains, in Sudan, …

Paula Bronstein/GETTY IMAGES Sudan refugee Sinara holds her grandson, Karum Bashir while his mother was away getting water in Jamam refugee camp, South Sudan. Up to 16000 refugees are in the process of being moved due to flooding in the camp.

 South Sudan one year on, family planning, and food aid

South Sudan A year on from South Sudan’s independence, what has changed in the world’s newest country and what does this mean for its people and development: in numbers, for the region, economically, politically, for those still without citizenship, …

 For South Sudanese marathoner, Olympics would be the ultimate refuge

If the ideals of the Olympics as expressed in their Charter and rituals still ring true in any way, the most resonant moment of the last Summer Games was the sight of Lopez Lomong, a refugee from civil war in the Sudan, carrying the US flag into the …