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A couple stands in front of their shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan, April 28.
Fleeing aerial bombardment by the Sudanese air force thousands of people have abandoned their homes and made make-shift shelters between the rocks and boulders.
According to the Sudan Tribune, the UN is to open a new camp in Kenya for refugees from both Sudan and South Sudan.
Related content - On assignment: Ann Curry's photographs from Sudan's Nuba Mountains
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A woman walks towards a cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan.
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A Nuba woman, injured during a raid by Sudan's air force, sits in a makeshift hospital in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan.
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
A SPLA-N soldier walks next to fresh graves of Nuba people killed during raids by Sudan's air force in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan.
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Nuba people carry their belongings to be loaded in a truck as they flee to the South Sudanese Yida refugee camp, in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan.
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A woman stands in a cave next to her bedridden mother in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan.
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Children sits in a cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan.
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A woman stands in front of her shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan.
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A woman holds her child in a cave in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, April 28.
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Women stand in front of a cave in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan.
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A woman sits in front of her cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, April 28.
When the aid organization Ryan Boyette worked for urged him to evacuate Sudan's dangerous Nuba Mountains last summer, he politely quit his job. For the last nine years, Boyette has called the region home and the people there have become his family. The American man married a Nuba woman and learned to speak the local language. Now, he's mounting a video campaign to shed light on the growing conflict between Nuba rebel forces and the Sudanese government. The conflict has sent thousands of Nuba people into makeshift camps. Sudan's government says it's stopping an insurgency. The Nuba people say they have been the victims of ethnic cleansing, systematic rape and kidnapping at the hands of the Sudanese authorities. NBC News anchor Ann Curry reports.
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