who are the rebels in a long way gone
A Long Way Gone During their stay in Mattru Jong with Gibrilla, Khalilou, and Kaloko, the RUF attacks. The three are able to flee the village without the rebels following them. They decide to head back home. On the way, it turns out that their village was also captured by the RUF. According to an old man who was sitting outside the village, most of the people had fled to a village on the Sierra Leone coast.
A Long Walk to Water Salva Dut is a young 11-year-old boy separated from his family during a war in what is now South Sudan because of the Second Sudanese Civil War. He has to walk for weeks with only the hope that one day he will find his family again. Salva also struggles to find food and water to survive along with avoiding gunmen, lions and other threats. Salva leads 1,500 fellow lost boys to a refugee camp near the Gilo River. On his way many people die including his uncle and some of his friends. Seven years later, he arrives in America. He lives with a family in Rochester, New York. Many years later he finds his father who tells him that most of his family survived. Later he starts a volunteer group to build wells in South Sudan called Water for South Sudan.