‘The PSL is fast and skilful’
The second Sudanese civil war that lasted 22 years from 1983 to 2005 is recorded as one of the longest in the world and ultimately went on to result in the independence of South Sudan six years after the war ended.
Two million people died, with civilians accounting for most of those, while another four million people in South Sudan were displaced.
For one family that had fled to the Kakuma refugee camp in neighbouring Kenya, set up by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), they had to deal with the arrival of their bundle of joy through the tensions of their stay there.
The little boy was named Manyiel Riel ‘Abraham’ Majok.
“The civil war in Sudan meant my parents fled to Kenya and settled there as refugees,” Majok says. “From there I was born, and the place became a community with the people settling there to make it a home. I was a baby, but I have been told it was hard and they had to rely on the UN, which wasn’t
