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South Sudan: struggling for survival as conflict intensifies

16-05-2012 Photo gallery

People living in the border region between South Sudan and Sudan are struggling to survive in an area gripped by armed violence that continues to escalate. Getty photographer Tom Stoddart captures their struggle and the ICRC's efforts to help them.

  • Agok, South Sudan. A girl photographed in Abathok village during an ICRC distribution of seeds, agricultural tools and food staples to households in villages around Agok.
    • Agok, South Sudan. A girl photographed in Abathok village during an ICRC distribution of seeds, agricultural tools and food staples to households in villages around Agok.
      © T. Stoddart / Getty Images / ICRC

    Approximately 15,000 people displaced by fighting in May 2011 were given sesame, groundnuts and sorghum seed, plus tools for tilling and some food as seed protection.

  • Agok, South Sudan. People from Nyintar village photographed during an ICRC distribution of seeds, agricultural tools and food staples to households in villages around Agok.
    • Agok, South Sudan. People from Nyintar village photographed during an ICRC distribution of seeds, agricultural tools and food staples to households in villages around Agok.
      © T. Stoddart / Getty Images / ICRC

    Approximately 15,000 people displaced by fighting in May 2011 were given sesame, groundnuts and sorghum seed, plus tools for tilling and some food as seed protection.

  • Unity State, South Sudan. Women and children collect water at Wengoth village in Pariang County, where the ICRC has assisted in the construction and maintenance of a water pump serving the area. Photo shows a girl carrying water home through the parched South Sudan landscape.
    • Unity State, South Sudan. Women and children collect water at Wengoth village in Pariang County, where the ICRC has assisted in the construction and maintenance of a water pump serving the area. Photo shows a girl carrying water home through the parched South Sudan landscape.
      © T. Stoddart / Getty Images / ICRC

    Water is essential to life. The ICRC seeks to maintain access to clean water for the most vulnerable people caught up in crisis situations.

  • Unity State, South Sudan. A women photographed carrying water at Wara village in Pariang County, where ICRC has assisted in the construction and maintenance of a water pump serving the area.
    • Unity State, South Sudan. A women photographed carrying water at Wara village in Pariang County, where ICRC has assisted in the construction and maintenance of a water pump serving the area.
      © T. Stoddart / Getty Images / ICRC

    Water is essential to life. The ICRC seeks to maintain access to clean water for the most vulnerable people caught up in crisis situations.

  • Malakal, South Sudan. A scene inside the paediatric department of Malakal Teaching Hospital where ICRC doctor Giorgio Monti conducts his early morning rounds.
    • Malakal, South Sudan. A scene inside the paediatric department of Malakal Teaching Hospital where ICRC doctor Giorgio Monti conducts his early morning rounds.
      © T. Stoddart / Getty Images / ICRC

    The ICRC medical team deal with conditions such as celebral malaria, malnutrition, diarrhoea and tuberculosis. The hospital serves three conflict-affected states in the northern regions of South Sudan.

  • Bentiu, Unity State, South Sudan. An ICRC field surgical team led by senior surgeon Dr Tesfayie Feleke photographed during emergency operations on injured combatants at Bentiu Hospital.
  • Juba, South Sudan. A six-year-old amputee pictured at the Juba Physical Rehabilitation Reference Centre co-run by the ICRC, where he received treatment and an artificial leg after being injured while travelling in a truck that hit a landmine.
  • Warrab, South Sudan. A scene during an ICRC information session on the Law of Armed Conflict with soldiers from Warrab State.
  • Jamam, South Sudan. The Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State houses 36,500 vulnerable people who have fled across the border from their homes in Blue Nile state to escape the ongoing fighting in the border region.

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