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A major complication faced by women in South Sudan is obstetric fistula. Approximately 5,000 women in South Sudan have obstetric fistula every year. [9] Fistula is most common in areas where there are not medical resources. [11] This often results in the loss of the child as well as the rejection of the woman by her husband and others. [11]
Aheu Deng was born in Itang (Ethiopian District), which was a South Sudan rebel camp, and won the Beauties of Miss Earth South Sudan 2009 pageant on June 10, 2009. She inherited the crown from Nok Duany, [ 4 ] who held the 2008 Beauties of South Sudan title by virtue of the franchise holders appointment.
Alek Wek (born 16 April 1977) is a South Sudanese-British model and designer who began her fashion career at the age of 18 in 1995. She has been hailed for her influence on the perception of beauty in the fashion industry. She is from the Dinka ethnic group in South Sudan, [2] but fled to Britain in 1991 to escape the civil war in Sudan. [3]
A Sudanese woman identified only as Hania, 18, told Human Rights Watch she was pregnant in February 2024 when RSF fighters burst into her home in Habila, South Kordofan state, and abducted her ...
Aguil Chut Deng Acouth (1967 – c. 26 April 2022), also known as Aguil de'Chut Deng or Aguil Chut-Deng, was a South Sudanese revolutionary and activist. She was a member of "Katiba Banat", the women's battalion of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), during the Second Sudanese Civil War.
Hon. Jemma Nunu Kumba (born 1966) is a South Sudanese politician.She is the current Minister of Gender, Child and Social Welfare of South Sudan. She founded the Sudan women Parliamentary Caucus in 2004 at the start of the comprehensive peace agreement.
Nyakim Gatwech's parents lived in Maiwut, South Sudan, before they fled due to the Second Sudanese Civil War to Gambela, Ethiopia, where Gatwech was born.From there, they migrated to Kenya where they lived in refugee camps until they migrated to the US when Gatwech was 14 years old.
Linguistic diversity is much greater in the southern half of the country, a significant majority of the people belong to either the Dinka people (25.2%) of the South Sudan population, and primary residents of the historic Upper Nile Region and Bahr el Ghazal Region or the Nuer people (18.6%) of the South Sudan population living primarily in the ...