The exhausted donkeys pulling carts overloaded with people and luggage across the border into South Sudan look as though they could buckle and collapse at any moment.
The same could be said of the fragile nation the new arrivals are fleeing to.
South Sudan, statistically the poorest country in the world, is being overwhelmed by an exodus of people fleeing the bloodshed in neighbouring Sudan.
A team from CBC News visited the remote border region between the two neighbours recently, an area which is extremely difficult for Western news organizations to access.
Looking north into Sudan from the border in South Sudan. Daytime highs in the
