South Sudan: South Sudan Refugees Stranded Between Floods and Fight

Oct 28, 2014 | William Davison, Bloomberg
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Given a choice between braving floods in her refugee camp in Ethiopia or returning home to war in South Sudan, Martha Nyakuk prefers the deluge of water.

Nyakuk, 70, came from the city of Malakal in February after Africa’s newest nation plunged into civil war, ignited by a rivalry between President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and his former vice president, Riek Machar, a Nuer. Two of her children survived the violence, while her husband died and a daughter and two sons are missing.