Sisters find safe refuge in South Sudan

At a safe space set up for children, two sisters quietly hold one another while other children play around them. Their silence catches Berhe's attention. “Among the children, there were two that really stayed with me,” says Berhe, Plan’s Food Security Expert. “You can see in their faces that what they saw was grave.” 

The two girls were Lina, age 4, and Madiha, age 9*. Lina is clutching her blue bunny rabbit, as Madiha musters up the courage to tell Berhe her story. She saw armed men attacking everything, killing everyone in sight. At their hometown in Bor, just before New Year’s Eve on 28 December, armed men seized the girls’ mum and dad. Later that day, the parents were shot dead at close range. Madiha witnessed the whole event. 

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