He almost whispers into the phone: “Jambo la kwanza ni uhai” – the first thing is life. It was March 2018 in Oronyo, a village in South Sudan. Thomas Kisario Mariano was 18 years old. As was routine, his family – his parents, his four brothers and three sisters – had spent the day out in the fields farming. They came back home and found that all their cows were gone. “For us, cattle were everything.” Everyone in the house was crying. It was far …
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