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John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.” (Published December 2025)

propublica.orgTrump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

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Paul
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An excellent article. This part just kills me. Apparently, the cuts were so sweeping and implemented with so little oversight that they actually cut power to the U.S. embassy in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.