It is early morning in Reke village, a settlement of about 3,000 people displaced by fighting between government and rebel forces in the oil-rich Unity state.
There were heavy rains overnight and the village, about 650km (400 miles) north-west of the capital Juba, is only accessible with a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
Some children are playing in an open area. In one corner, a group of women are building a makeshift hut, known as Tukul, with sticks and reeds collected from a nearby river.
Elsewhere in the village, an elderly woman is seated outside a smoky Tukul. She smiles brightly as we approach her, and removes a pipe, lights it and blows out a huge puff of smoke, as her neighbours cheer her on.more photos below
"I have nothing much to do, I am miserable, but that will not prevent me from enjoying this smoke," she tells me through a translator.
The smiles and laughter in Reke betray the suffering of the community.
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