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Slideshow: Surviving in the Sudd

People line up to receive food aid in Koch town during the first delivery of assistance since the government launched an offensive in May, forcing aid workers to evacuate Jason Patinkin/IRIN
People line up to receive food aid in Koch town, South Sudan
A month after President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a peace deal aimed at ending South Sudan's two-year civil war, there is still intermittent fighting in some of the nation's most far-flung and violent places.

IRIN witnessed the first delivery of assistance since the government launched an offensive in May, forcing aid workers to evacuate.

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