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Sudan: A Perilous Path
Exploring life and politics in southern Sudan. An Anniston Star special report.
Normal life goes on in southern Sudan despite ominous signs of a return to civil war. Above, a woman travels from her village of Kundruwa down a dusty road to a nearby stream for water. Photo: Daniel Phillips/Special to The Star
A perilous path: Sudan finds itself on the brink of further catastrophe
The politics of Sudan are nothing short of scary. The nation is on the precipice of war, a condition that has plagued it for more than 20 years. After decades of internal conflict, a shaky peace is threatened by upcoming elections, political quarreling and a referendum on independence for the south of the nation.
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Buni Anania Sasa took his extended family of 35 people into hiding for 21 years to escape the violence in southern Sudan. He fears the bombings and killings may return. Photo: John Fleming/The Anniston Star
'We don't want to go back to war': In Sudan, another season of perpetual misery
MUNDRI, Sudan — In mid-1983, a Soviet-made Antonov cargo plane plowed through the sky over this small market town in the south of Sudan and dropped a bomb onto the local school yard. Buni Anania Sasa took one look at the carnage — three dead innocents, a massive crater and the onset of panic and chaos — promptly rounded up his extended family of 35 and fled to the bush.
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The Associated Press Joseph Kony, the leader of the Sudanese rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army. Kony’s group has wreaked havoc in many of that nation’s southern villages.
The nightmare of Africa’s rebels
MUNDRI, Sudan — Repent Ligyi squats before his decrepit hut in the middle of a clearing surrounded by his failing sorghum crop.
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Audio Slideshow: John Bul Atem
The story of John Bul Atem, who fled his village in southern Sudan in 1990, at the height of the country's civil war.
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A sign outside the provincial hospital in Lui, Sudan, warns of what’s not allowed on the premises. Photos by John Fleming/The Anniston Star
‘What else can I do?’
Dr. Albert Oliha is a tired man. Then again, he has a right to be tired. Facing him, on the other side of his battered desk, is a line of suffering, stretching from the door of his dingy office out into the sparse shade of this provincial hospital’s courtyard.
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