Stricken with malaria, a mother can do nothing but watch her son, with digestive problems, wither away in a mud-hut hospital at Atepi, Sudan. Children climb over hundreds of bags of sorghum to wait in line for their monthly ration. A nurse with Norwegian People's Aid assists a dying man who was shot, beaten, and dragged with a rope behind a truck by the Khartoum government as the war slowly creeps south. Cases like this child are common in a region where food is scarce. At the only market still functioning in Southern Sudan, displaced Sudanese, their legs as thin as twigs, spend their days idle with nothing to do and no money to buy the few dried sardines sold in the makeshift market in the shade of a tree.
Nothing goes to waste for the thousands who are displaced in Sudan.
At a small distribution hut a women picks up every spilled bean. A Dinka woman enjoys a smoke from her pipe at the Ashwa hospital in Sudan. The young women lost her left arm when matchete wheelding men invaded her village. Workers with the U.K.-headquartered Intereact Limited use a metal cable to try and pull free one of 10 trucks stuck in mud in northern Uganda along the only road leading to southern Sudan. All attention is focused on Ted Chaiban, director of Catholic Relief Servies in Sudan, as the worker listen to Chaiban's frustration on supplying enough food to feed the hundreds of thousands of displaced in Sudans 10-year civil war.