The problems that salva had to face in a long walk to water

Salva is a young Dinka boy who lives in South Sudan in 1985. There is a civil war between South and North Sudan. South Sudan is primarily Christian and North Sudan is primarily Muslim. North and South Sudan are at war because the South Sudanese people do not want to change their religion from Christianity to Islam.  This story is about Salva's journey from South Sudan as he flees the Sudanese army and ends up in America. One day Salva is at school and is told to run away because the Sudanese army is coming. He first ends up in a rebel camp where the fleeing men are forced to join the rebel army. Salva is a child so he continues on his journey. He faces starvation,  thirst, marauding rebels, he crosses a desert, wild animals such as lion, his shoes and clothes wear out so he has to walk barefoot across the desert, he is chased out of Ethiopia and ends up walking towards a refugee camp in Kenya. 

The setting is new mexico