American college students Shayla Montgomery (C, left), 18, from Alabama and Christal James (C, right), 20, from Colorado both with the National Association for Prevention of Starvation (NAPS) play Christmas songs in a marching band in Turalei December 23. Turalei was one of the most hard hit areas when famine struck large sections of southern Sudan following fighting between the mainly Christian Sudan People's Liberation Army amd the Khartoum Islamic government continues.

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