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29 October 11

This article is from AFP by Jenny Vaughan. Views expressed are the author’s own.

SHERKOLE, Ethiopia — The two holes where the bullets entered Sudanese refugee Abseta Afalla’s calf are still raw, a grim reminder from the boiling civil war in Sudan’s Blue Nile state he fled from.

It still pains him to walk on his wounded leg, so he spends most of his days lying in his tent in this refugee camp in Ethiopia, close enough to the border to still hear the sound of regular aerial bombings in the…

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh