“If I take blood from any of you and ask that you identify which one is Dinka, Shilluk, Murle or Nuer, that will be impossible. Dinkas, Shilluks, Murlers, and Nuer – all have the same blood that unites us as South Sudanese people,” said Dr Agot Aleir Leek, Deputy Governor of Jonglei State.
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A section of students of the John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology listen attentively at an UNMISS forum on identity

Senior army officers in Yei, learning about the human costs of war, the rights and suffering of victims of sexual violence.

The author, Gideon Sackitey (right) helps colleagues to offload mattresses - part of the items they donated to the children's ward at Bor Town Hospital - from a truck.