Photo by lynseyaddario | Achan Akech, 30, left, mother of five, prepares containers to be filled as Ajoh Majur, 12, pumps water from a borehole in the flooded town of Panyagor, in South Sudan, on October 23. Both Akech and Majur have been displaced from their homes in the floods that have consumed parts of Jonglei state for the third consecutive year.
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. 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 plastic sheeting, corrugated metal, and tree branches. As of late Oc...