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Sam Mednick is a freelance journalist and the Associated Press correspondent in South Sudan. Over the past 13 years, she’s reported on conflict, post-conflict and development stories from the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Sam writes for VICE, Foreign Policy, Devex and iPolitics, among other international publications. She also produces and hosts a podcast. Follow her work at sammednick.com and on Twitter @sammednick.
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Peter Koang has been displaced three times since the war in South Sudan began. Each time, he managed to salvage his sewing machine, which now brings him a rare bit of stability at a time of fragile peace.
Gisma Magara works with women in Juba’s camp for people who have fled South Sudan’s civil war. She tells her story to Sam Mednick.
In South Sudan, people are sheltering from conflict wherever they can, including a network of islands in the swamps of Unity State. On one island, where 2,300 displaced people live without access to clean water or toilets, cholera has become rife.
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