Ferocious violence erupted in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, killing or wounding hundreds and displacing tens of thousands.

Jackie knows about heartbreak. She became pregnant in the ninth grade and was forced to leave school. Then, when her baby was nearly two years old, she suddenly fell sick. “I took her to the clinic. But when I came back, she was dead,” Jackie told UNFPA.

“My father forced me to get married to an older man almost his age. The old man gave him 20 cows.