South Sudan

Since the 2005 Naivasha Agreement, the South of what was then Africa's largest country, was inevitably on track for claiming independence after the 6-year period agreed, with almost all trust in the Khartoum government eroded. Much of Africa's longest civil war, 1956-72 and 1983-2005, was fought here in the south, and at the end of 2013, just two years after independence, the world's newest nation once again descended into a new civil war, this time on ethnic lines between the Dinka and Nuer. These photographs were made in the two years before Naivasha, a rare interim without fighting.