The lost children of a brutal war

(AFP) – Her feet bare and her home town in flames, Nyadet walked east alone, eating food given to her by strangers and following trails left by others escaping war in South Sudan. She is 12 years old. Nine days after she fled bloodshed in the flashpoint town of Malakal last November, Nyadet reached the country’s border with Ethiopia, and crossed over to safety. “Maybe they are safe,” is all she can say of her mother, father, sister and two brothers, whom she lost track of when the streets of her home town were transformed into a war zone.

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