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Nature Tents: Civilians Site and Slave-Traders City

nature tents: More than 40,000 people have sought refuge here from a brutal civil war increasingly described as tribal or ethnic in nature, according to CBC. Tents and other makeshift shelters as far as the eye can see. The people who live inside the dry and dusty labyrinth of scarecrow tents sometimes hang their laundry out on the barbed wire that rings the camp and is punctuated by guard towers manned by soldiers from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, or UNMISS. It's what's known as a protection of civilians site and lies in the old slave-traders city of Wau, capital of the northwestern state of the same name. With about 25,000 new internally displaced people packed into the Wau POC camp and grounds of the cathedral in just the past few weeks, overcrowding has put a strain on health and sanitation. Originally from Burundi, he fears where the conflict may be headed. Stephanie Jenzer/CBC What is for sure is there are many people who have been killed because of their ethnic affiliation or along ethnic lines, said Eugene Nindorera, the top UN human rights official on the ground in South Sudan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.