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00:00 Several days on the road, belongings packed up hastily.
00:04 It's a story that many of these people have already experienced once before, when they
00:08 left South Sudan as civil war erupted in 2013, shortly after the country gained independence
00:14 from Sudan.
00:15 "If I'd had the choice, I would not have come back to South Sudan.
00:21 I would have gone anywhere else.
00:23 But all the roads were closed."
00:29 Years ago, Lina fled South Sudan and settled near Khartoum, where she carved out a new
00:34 life for herself.
00:36 But when fighting broke out just next to her home, she had to throw it all away, taking
00:40 just her two children with her.
00:43 Her husband stayed behind because they didn't have enough money to pay for his journey.
00:48 Her story is far from isolated.
00:51 "People used to say that South Sudan wasn't stable.
00:55 So we decided to move and build a home in Sudan because of the instability.
00:59 But now it's the same situation in Sudan.
01:02 So what should we do?
01:03 We don't know.
01:04 We just don't know."
01:07 Conditions at this camp are rough.
01:10 Food is scarce.
01:11 Children are getting sick.
01:13 And some don't have anywhere to sleep.
01:16 Many hope they will be able to settle in a third country.
01:19 Up until last month, more than 800,000 South Sudanese refugees lived in Sudan.
01:25 Since fighting erupted in Khartoum, the UN Refugee Agency has registered more than 30,000
01:30 people crossing into South Sudan.
01:33 More than 90 percent of them are South Sudanese.
01:37 Actual figures could be much higher, with many people crossing via informal border points.