South Sudan: The 'forgotten war' where children as young as one face sexual abuse

Civil war has raged across Sudan for almost two years now, spreading millions of refugees around east Africa including into its neighbour South Sudan.  While the war slips behind the headlines for many in Europe, most of Sudan’s people just want peace and the fighting to end so they can live their lives without fear

Mary Atyeng, a Sudanese refugee at the Kiir Adem border crossing with her baby. Picture: Eugene Ikol, Concern Worldwide

The Irish Examiner travelled to South Sudan to meet with some of the 1.1m refugees who have fled across the border from the war. Women, children and men all shared stories of pain but also of their hope for something better in their futures. 

Mary Atyeng holds her three-month old baby as she talks, her eyes squinting against South Sudan's harsh 37-degree sun where she sits next to a river marking the border with Sudan.