Photo Credit: Refugees International/ Sarah Martin
03/11/2006

Nyaluk is twenty years old and has just returned from living for many years in Khartoum. "I came alone with my one year old son and my brother," she told RI. "I came back because there is peace here. My parents are in the village but I am staying in Canal with my relative until I can gather enough money to try to get to my village. My husband is still in the north working in a bakery. He will return eventually. There was nothing in the North for me. I know my people were here. We still hope the peace will hold out but it will be out of my hands. My life here is not that good because there is no food and no health care for my baby but it is our country so I will come here. It feels peaceful here – I will never think of going back to the North. There nothing was easy, everything was difficult. In the IDP camp of Mandela in the North there is nothing there for me although there are at least some health clinics there. The Arabs in the North are not good. They did not treat us well."