South Sudan: GPS points the way to preserving South Sudan's burial traditions

Simona Foltyn in Juba

With families in war-torn South Sudan often unable to find and bury the bodies of loved ones, the Red Cross is recording location details electronically

It wasn’t safe and, according to custom, it wasn’t supposed to be a woman’s job. But Dahia Salih was determined to go anyway.

Sporadic gunshots could still be heard and looters continued to pillage abandoned homes when her family received a phone call to say that the body of her half-brother, Sebit, had finally been recovered. Yet unless a relative picked up Sebit’s corpse, he would be buried in a communal grave with dozens of others who had died in the Jebel area, the epicentre of recent fighting between government and opposition forces in South Sudan’s capital, Juba.

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