South Sudan’s Oil Shutdown, Violence Mar Independence Year
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When Acual Bak left Sudan for newly independent South Sudan in December, she expected the government to provide basic services and allocate her family a plot of land to start a new life.
Almost seven months on, Bak is living in grass hut with a roof made from green tarpaulin at a temporary camp for returnees outside of Aweil, the capital of Northern Bahr el-Ghazal state. She’s one of about 375,000 southerners who the International Organization for Migration says have made the trip from Sudan since October 2010.