In one of South Sudan’s forlorn camps, even a papal visit feels far away
The Juba IDP Camp 3 is a place for traumatized people that only makes the situation worse. White tents are spread out in blocks, separated by dusty, shadeless paths. The smell of human waste is pervasive. Makeshift services have popped up in the camp — a barber shop, churches, a school — making for a corrugated metal world that some people scarcely ever leave. More than half the population is younger than 18. An ever-growing percentage has been born there and knows nothing else.
For a place that sprung up as a temporary solution during the onset of fighting, one of the hardest things to grapple with is the de facto permanence. The reasons people have stayed there for years vary. Many have no land or homes to go back to. They lack money.
He called on the country to commit to peace in a “more serious way,” after a day earlier challenging the government — which presides over an oil-rich bounty — to cease corruption and act equitably.The country, over the last years, has seen the limits of the peace deal forged between South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, a Dinka, and his Nuer deputy, Riek Machar.
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