Pregnancy should bring joy, but in Western Equatoria State, it often causes sadness because of the high rate of maternal mortality, said Minister for Health John Bono during a May 2013 forum on how to prevent excessive bleeding among women during delivery.
Elizabeth Abuk, a married mother of four, recently rallied 500 farmers in South Sudan to form a cooperative that has improved the standard of living of the entire group and their families, some 3,500 people.
In the 18 months after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended Sudan’s two-decade civil war, few Sudanese had learned about it. Many knew that it could change their lives, but most were unaware of the details.
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