Refugees in Kenya Run for Peace in Their Countries

In Kenya, most of the refugees in the Kakuma camp are from South Sudan, Africa’s youngest war-torn nation, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

James Nyang crosses the finish line after the 10km road race during the Tegla Lorupe Peace Race in Kapenguria, West Pokot County, Kenya, on Nov, 10, 2018. Dominic Kirui/Special to The Epoch Times

KAJIADO, Kenya—In 2002, at age 9, James Nyang was to be taken as a child soldier so he could fight for his clan in South Sudan. It was his family’s turn to give one male, and his father had already been killed in the war that had hit the country that year.

But the now-25-year-old’s mother would not allow it. “She told me that I would be better to go die somewhere else instead of being put in the place of my dad,” Nyang said.