Elizabeth Labuk, 46, cheerlessly glares through the blistering Lamwo sunshine, which makes her stark dark skin glitter. She is clearly absent-minded and as the pause wears on, her eyes well up. Her voice shakes when she speaks again. "I just ran away when the fighting intensified and I don't know where my husband ran to. I cannot rule out death because when the SPLA (Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army) launched the fighting against the rebels, several lives were lost and civilians were not spared too."
Ms Labuk, a mother of two, is one of the estimated 15,000 South Sudanese refugees that have crossed to Lamwo District of Uganda following the recent eruption of fighting in the world's youngest country. Lamwo is just one of the South Sudan refugee receiving centre, with the vast majority of them crossing into the West Nile sub-region of Uganda.
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