A child belonging to the Nuer ethnic group passes through the barbed wire in the internally displaced people (IDP) camp in Juba.
After decades of war against the north of the country, in 2011 South Sudan gained independence, becoming the youngest state in the world. Since more than one year the civil war between the different ethnic groups has brought the country on the brink of an abyss, confirming it as one of the poorest in the world.
