As South Sudan Plans for Elections, a Town Counts the Cost of War

Since renewed fighting erupted across South Sudan last year, collapsing the country’s fragile peace agreement, the town of Akobo, in the east, has been one of the flashpoints.

Thousands who fled the fighting are coming home, exposing the scale of the challenges facing the town and reflecting the wider humanitarian emergency impacting the country, which is supposed to be preparing for its first-ever elections.