South Sudan: Reggae Musician Born in Exile Becomes Displaced Back Home

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Juba — David became a refugee even before he was born, when his pregnant mother fled to Ethiopia in 1986. But he never imagined that 26 years later he would become displaced again, in his own newly independent country of South Sudan.

"I spent most of my years moving from place to place as a refugee in foreign lands, but nothing compares to the situation I'm in today," he says inside a UN military base that has become a sanctuary for civilians displaced by fighting over the last two weeks. "As a refugee [for 20 years] in Ethiopia and Kenya, at least I had security and basic assistance, but here we are living in a state of fear because we are unsure of what is going to happen in the next minute."

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