More than 1.6 million children aged under five will suffer from malnutrition next year in South Sudan, following a surge in waterborne diseases due to flooding, the UN's World Food Programme said Monday.
Internally displaced women and children seek medical attention at the nutrition site B IDP's camp in Bentiu on February 8, 2023. Four straight years of flooding, an unprecedented phenomenon linked to climate change, has swamped two-thirds of South Sudan but nowhere more dramatically than Bentiu, a northern city besieged by water.NAIROBI, Kenya —
In Rubkona county, where floodwaters have submerged large tracts of land, forcing entire communities to live on small islands since 2021, the cost of food staples has climbed by more than 120 percent since April. The crisis has been compounded by the return of hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees fleeing Sudan's brutal war, with WFP warning last month that families were facing "a hunger emergency".
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