06/02/2012
Many women have been widowed in the violent clashes between tribes in South Sudan - leaving them and their children in desperate need of support from Plan.
Many women have been widowed in the violent clashes between tribes in South Sudan - leaving them and their children in desperate need of support from Plan.
Dark ash and half burnt wooden stumps is all that is left in one village, blogs Plan's Head of Disaster Preparedness and Response Dr Unni Krishnan from strife-torn South Sudan.
A Plan supporter who was trying to row across the Atlantic in record time to promote Plan's Because I am a Girl campaign has been forced to abandon the attempt after his boat capsized.
Ranked 186th out of 187 countries in the human development index, this forgotten corner of the world has been facing famine for years, blogs Plan's country director in Niger Rheal Drisdelle.
