South Sudan - Birth of a Nation
A Mundari boy walks through a cattle camp in Central Equatoria Province. This pastoralist tribe suffered from inter-tribal conflicts and cattle rustling in the northern part of the province and were forced to move further south in search of safer grazing land. Cattle are their only form of wealth and are all-important to the culture and identity of Sudan's pastoralist tribes. They depend on the region's water resources, grazing lands and the seasonal cycles of rain for the survival of their nomadic way of life. Prolonged periods of drought and erratic rains in the Horn of Africa caused by climate change are threatening the herds and exacerbating tribal conflicts in the fragile young nation.
Kuruki, South Sudan. 12/10/2009.
