Sungipio Anibiya and her baby Balribia Ungare join 50 others from Gangura, Southern Sudan, on the border of northern Democratic Republic of Congo, on the journey to Makpandu. Sunigipia hopes to reunite with her husband at the refugee site.
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Sudan, DRC, CAR: Seeking Shelter From Violence is a feature story by Jenn Warren now appearing on Gaia Photos.
As photojournalist Jenn Warren explains, "The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan based guerrilla army, has been fighting in northern Uganda since 1986, in a civil war that has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives and caused around 1.6 million refugees to flee. The UN has described the war as the “biggest neglected humanitarian emergency in the world.”
Further, Jenn Warren says, "Over 5,000 Congolese have fled into Southern Sudan seeking refuge, where UNHCR is working with a number of humanitarian organizations in the relief effort. The number of forcibly displaced in the Orientale Province of northeastern DRC has now surpassed 104,000. Many of these internally displaced people are still hiding in the bush, while others have moved to the UNHCR site for the refugees in Makpandu and Ezo, Western Equatoria Province, Southern Sudan."
Jenn Warren visited this region of Africa to document the refugee people affected by these events and her photo essay Sudan, DRC, CAR: Seeking Shelter From Violence is now appearing on Gaia Photos, a new international photography source comprised of 48 photojournalists from around the world whose mission is to promote quality and diversity in documentary photography.
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