South Sudan: Livestock Critical to Survival

Terekeka — "There were so many, and now there are so few... It makes me sad when the animals die," said Sezerina Sake, a young Mundari woman, as she looked on to the community's cattle camp in Terekeka, 80km north of South Sudan's capital, Juba, where she has spent her entire life.

Generations here have missed out on schooling to tend to the cattle, milk the cows and burn their dung to use as mosquito repellant.

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