S.Sudan holds breath as fragile peace faces crucial test

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S.Sudan holds breath as fragile peace faces crucial test
afp.com

Chol Deng, her husband and five children sit, exhausted, under a tree, having journeyed back to South Sudan five years after fleeing their corpse-strewn hometown Malakal.

Encouraged by a six-month lull in fighting as a peace deal holds for the first time since 2015, the family last month joined scores of others warily returning home from Ethiopia and Sudan.




"People died, lots of them. People could literally walk on dead bodies across Malakal. That was why we left," Deng told AFP, recounting the family's flight to Sudan in February 2014.

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We've got some South Sudanese in our neighborhood. They must have seen some tough things over there.