Mustra Mohammed. All photos by Ashley Hamer
Refugees wait for food in Maban.
An old sign for Chali.
A young woman mining for gold.
Nawah Hasan is 23 and five months pregnant.
Gold can be sold or traded for sorghum, a type of grain.
Awadua Asaud works at the mines every single day.
Major General Buta.
Women in a dry riverbed in Mayak.
Children point to graffiti of bombs and war.
Trees blossom along the Yabus river in Blue Nile.
Major General Buta celebrates at a graduation ceremony for new soldiers.
An old latrine serves as a foxhole for this mother and baby when bomber jets fly over Chali.
The most recent iteration of the civil war began in 2011.
SPLA-N soldiers stand at attention and sing in Forge, the military capital of the opposition.
Blue Nile is a graveyard of buildings, homes, and cars that have been bombed and burnt. In Chali, children play in the ruins.