A Tale of Tapeworms and Refugees in South Sudan

Dogs and pigs scavenge for offal left by butchers in South Sudan Charles Hoots

Dogs and pigs scavenge for offal left by butchers in South Sudan Charles Hoots

Over 120,000 refugees were living in four tented camps in the far northeast of South Sudan when I arrived in July 2013. Caught up in a complicated war in neighboring Sudan’s Blue Nile State, this diverse mix of people had fled the aerial bombings and ground attacks on their remote villages. Those who had warning herded together their handful of cattle, sheep, and goats and drove them along on their way to an uncertain future in the newly independent nation of South Sudan.

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