Photo by lynseyaddario | South Sudanese families in the village of Dhiam Dhiam prepare the day’s catch both for dinner and drying, to be sold elsewhere in Jonglei state, October 21. According to the United Nations, 27 out of the 78 counties in South Sudan are impacted by flooding, affecting more than 630,000 people. In most of Twic East County, fish is the only source of food. Across vast stretches of this remote region, thousands of people are crammed onto patches of high ground bound by stacks of sandbags. Floodwaters have risen to the brink of the sandbag walls, leaving precarious little margin for more rain or excess water flowing down the Nile from neighboring countries experiencing the higher levels of rainfall.
The UN pointed to climate change as the source of the worst flooding in some parts of the country since 1962. Almost every person in Twic East County has been displaced, seeking shelter at former schools or warehouses, or huddling in makeshift tents strung together with ...
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