Where would he find security if his house was burned and armed men took everything he owned? In South Sudan, 1.8 million people have been displaced since December 2013, when political rivalry between the president of South Sudan and his former vice president erupted in fighting, intensifying ethnic tensions in the country’s newest country. world. To escape the violence, thousands of southern Sudanese took refuge in a series of small isolated islands in the Nile River, where the channel supports and protects them. This is his story.