The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has offered to increase peacekeeping patrols in the Eastern Equatorian town of Torit to improve security and help build peace.

The land in Yambio is lush, rich in colour, and fertile – the perfect place to grow crops and raise farm animals.

Traditional huts, or tukul, of bamboo, mud brick and thatched roof stand strong.

Women wait in line at the borehole for their turn to fill yellow jerricans with water.

A group of men sit under a tree chatting about politics and what’s happening in the community.