Joyce Augustino, center, holds up signs with friends at a rally for awareness about the situation in South Sudan, at Monument Square in Portland on Friday.
Joyce Augustino, 15, left, and Lucy Otto, 16, both of Portland, wear the American and South Sudanese flags and hold up signs at at Monument Square during a rally to raise awareness about the situation in South Sudan. Both Augustino and Otto came to the United States as young children.
Nyamuon Nguany Machar holds up a sign for drivers to see as they pass Monument Square in Portland on Friday. She stood with about a dozen others who have connections to South Sudan, a new African state.
Kwan Malwal, left, speaks with Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling at a rally for awareness about the situation in South Sudan, at Monument Square in Portland on Friday. South Sudan’s tenuous five-year existence is threatened by a civil war that has left thousands starving.
Lucy Otto, 16, of Portland, wears the South Sudanese flag and holds up a poster of the flag depicted as dripping with blood at Monument Square during a rally to raise awareness about the situation in South Sudan. Otto was born in South Sudan came to the United States when she was 5 years old.
Samuel Albino attends a rally for awareness about the situation in South Sudan, at Monument Square in Portland on Friday.
Nyamuon Nguany Machar, who hasn't heard from her father in three months after he went back to South Sudan, works on posters for a rally held Friday in Monument Square in Portland to call attention to the situation in that country. Signs were created by members of Youth M.O.V.E. Maine, shown here at their office on Lancaster Street.
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