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Uganda has now taken in more than a million refugees who have fled civil war in neighbouring South Sudan. And more are coming every day. It鈥檚 said that Uganda has the most generous refugee policy in the world, with new arrivals given land and allowed to work. But the majority of South Sudanese refugees are women and children who have lost almost everything and, as Ruth Alexander discovers, the reality of starting a new life from scratch is far from straightforward.

(Photo: Josephine Fony and her baby move into their patch of untamed land in northern Uganda)