bibeau: The woman was one of the four million South Sudanese who have been internally displaced because of the four-year-old civil war raging in their country, according to The Chronicle Herald. Another two million have fled the country as refugees. International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau recalled seeing the woman in a northern remote region of South Sudan during a four-day visit that wrapped up Monday. It's the middle of nowhere for us, she didn't even have a roof over her head, Bibeau recalled in a conference call. South Sudan has emerged as one of the newest drivers of the larger global crisis in displaced people, one that reached epic new proportions Monday when the United Nations released the latest record-breaking number quantifying the problem 65.6 million people on the planet have fled their homes. She was sleeping under a tree waiting for airdrops to feed her family.
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