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Africa

Nyaluak Deng Awuol, “This child, who will look after him now?”
Nyaluak Deng Awuol is caring for her orphaned nephew, five-year-old Ajai Mawut Garang, who is recovering from a gunshot wound in Juba hospital. He was injured along with dozens more in the latest revenge attack in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, which the government said killed more than 80 people in the town of Duk Padiet, Duk County.
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Koko Alan, "I saw many people, women and children, being killed"
Koko and his wife Akuer Alan lost everything in the recent dramatic escalation of ethnic violence in newly independent South Sudan. Up to 8,000 armed Lou Nuer youths came to his village of Tangyang, near Gumuruk, killing civilians and taking cows, women and children belonging to the Murle with them. The attackers were eventually driven back by the army on reaching Pibor town, where authorities had stationed troops to protect the local administration.
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Kumke Lete, “I have seven children and they are eating nothing”
More than 20,000 people have fled bombs and violence in Sudan’s Blue Nile state to Doro refugee camp in South Sudan to seek food and shelter.
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Asia

Khalil, “The Taliban saw me coming”
Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar has long seen violence between insurgents and government or international forces, and a growing number of children have become victims. Khalil - from the province’s Zhari District, who goes by only one name and says he is “about 15” - told IRIN of a bomb blast in which he lost his leg.
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Magdalen Muraa, "I started asking myself, 'Why did I come here?'"
The Laos government is tackling its notoriously low maternal and child health indicators with a massive midwife training campaign.
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Hussain Ali, "We need protection not detention"
Hussain Ali, an ethnic Hazara Afghan, has experienced first-hand the flaws in Australia's mandatory detention policy. For more than 21 months, he has been held at the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre (IDC), one of eight high-security facilities across Australia for boat people, unsure whether his application for refugee status will be accepted or not.
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Middle East

Mohammed Abdallah Ali, “The trial was in a kitchen”
As the relationship between pro-democracy activists and the ruling military deteriorates in post-revolutionary Egypt, the practice of putting civilians through deeply flawed military trials has been a growing source of friction.
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Karrad, "If I stop working, how can we survive?"
Karrad, 16, and his family fled the sectarian violence in Iraq following the US-led invasion in 2003 and came to Syria in 2005. Although the Syrian government provides Iraqi children with free education in its public schools, Karrad and his brother Ali, 12, cannot go to school because they are the breadwinners. Karrad told his story to IRIN:
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Ali Saleh Ahmad, "It was a hard trip with Zaraa on my back"

Ali Saleh Ahmad, 45, and his family arrived in the Al Mazraq camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajjah after fighting between the Saudi army and Houthi-led Shia rebels in the northern Saada governorate forced them to flee their home in Ghafri village, Dhahiri district.
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