The Other SUDAN
July 4, 2007 - Kolmerek, Sudan- Every morning, 18-year-old Paul Maluk wakes up under a cow-skin he uses as a blanket. Thousands of towering horns, mounds of burning cow dung and the overwhelming sound of cattle surround him. At 7 a.m., the temperature is already 97 degrees; the air is filled with hot, suffocating ash. Maluk and 80 other boys at a cattle camp in southern Sudan near the Ethiopian border begin the dayÕs routine by collecting, spreading and burning cow dung.
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