Canada contributes $86M more to South Sudan, epicentre of refugee crisis
OTTAWA — The woman appeared content for the moment, waiting under a tree for a little bit of salvation to fall — quite literally — from the sky.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau recalled seeing the woman in a northern remote region of South Sudan during a four-day visit that wrapped up Monday.
The woman was one of the four million South Sudanese who have been internally displaced because of the four-year-old civil war raging in their country. Another two million have fled the country as refugees.
“It’s the middle of nowhere for us, she didn’t even have a roof over her head,” Bibeau recalled in a conference call.