Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

South Sudan: 'a level of human suffering I have never seen anywhere else'

Children are paying the highest price for 22-month conflict that has displaced millions of people and pushed the world’s youngest country close to famine

In the schoolyard at the Malakal protection of civilians camp children sketch on slates with chalk. Photograph: Unicef
 in Malakal-Wednesday 28 October 2015
Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
Tiny, perfect, sleepy, and naked save for the beads around his neck and wrist, Pul is oblivious to the state of his homeland, a country born a little more than four years before him.