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Akwol Wut Ajing, sobbed as she knelt to place her arm around her mother, Achai Deng Bor in Wau, South Sudan. Bor had just been told that her son had been killed in last weekend’s attack on Abyei which Bor and her children escaped from. Image by Rebecca Hamilton, Wau, South Sudan, May 27, 2011.

Journalists have had a tough time getting into the southern Sudanese town of Abyei since troops from northern Sudan seized the area earlier this month. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter Rebecca Hamilton who recounts the harrowing tales of refugees who fled Abyei after the attack.

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"Sudan in Transition” brings in-depth coverage of the cultural, political, economic and legal challenges that loom as Sudan lurches towards likely partition.
April 6, 2012 / Untold Stories
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Cedric Gerbehaye interviews aid worker/journalist Peter Moszynski on why people in the Nuba Mountains feel betrayed--by Sudan, by South Sudan, and by the world.
April 5, 2012 / Untold Stories
Cedric Gerbehaye
At least 100,000 refugees from fighting in the South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions of Sudan are at risk, desperately short of food in makeshift refugee camps along the border with South Sudan.