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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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