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Healing Abyei [photoessay]

Children in Sudan © Tim McKulka/UN Mission in Sudan

07/05/2008

Displaced residents of south Sudan are beginning to return home as relief organizations deploy aid workers to the town of Abyei, where violence between government troops and rebels broke out last May.

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