Renewed Fightings Drive More People To Refugee Camp In South Sudan

In this photo taken Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, refugees wait in line to receive packages of food that had been air-dropped by the World Food Programme (WFP) the previous day, in Yida camp, South Sudan. Newly arrived refugees at the camp along the volatile South Sudan-Sudan border say renewed fighting between rebels and Sudan’s military is likely to send thousands more people to the expanding camp there filled with refugees of war and hunger. 

In this photo taken Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, Abdul Karim Mustafa, 15, recounts his experience of being bombed by airplanes as he fled from his home in Tuna in Sudan’s South Kordofan State, to their new home in Yida refugee camp, South Sudan. Newly arrived refugees at the camp along the volatile South Sudan-Sudan border say renewed fighting between rebels and Sudan’s military is likely to send thousands more people to the expanding camp there filled with refugees of war and hunger.

In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, women carry tarpaulin sheets issued by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) back from a distribution point, in Yida camp, South Sudan. Newly arrived refugees at the camp along the volatile South Sudan-Sudan border say renewed fighting between rebels and Sudan’s military is likely to send thousands more people to the expanding camp there filled with refugees of war and hunger. <AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin>

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