Nearly 15,000 lost children seek parents in chaos of South Sudan's war
Source: Reuters - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Country: South Sudan
At CINA, a local organisation supported by UNICEF, case workers painstakingly trace separated families. Their database of lost children currently holds 15,000 names, but the programme is chronically underfunded.
Last year, reunifications dropped by 50 percent because there was not enough money to trace families
By Siegfried Modola
BENTIU, Feb 16 (Reuters) - In the chaos of South Sudan's civil war, it took three years for Nyagonga Machul to find her lost children.
Machul had travelled from her village to the capital when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, a Nuer, in 2013. The dismissal triggered a civil war in the world's newest nation that has increasingly been fought along ethnic lines.
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