

South Sudan: Good Lie Star Finds Key to Hope
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Emmanuel Jal's story is an inspiring personal journey of survival: During the second Sudanese civil war in the 1980s, his mother was killed when government sympathizers raided their village. At seven, he was recruited as a child soldier and held at a training camp disguised as a school. He and others escaped and traveled on foot for months before reaching a safe haven. At age 11, he was adopted by a British aid worker named Emma M