Southern Sudan Readies for Referendum

Southern Sudan Readies for Referendum
Dominic Nahr / Magnum for TIME

Flash Point
A boy controls a fire on land his family hopes to use for a garden and a house in Abyei, a disputed area that saw violence in 2008, when the northern army killed about 100 of its residents.

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