Abyei
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Gina Gial (below) and Mary Musiah construct a thatched roof in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people--including Gial and Musiah--fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly...
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Paul Jeffrey