The Nile reached its point partly a century in heavy seasonal rains, and giant portions of Sudan, Ethiopia and South Sudan were hit by climate change considerations.
As warnings of a new famine in South Sudan increase, the United Nations says that floods have affected at least half a million people, many in spaces in Jonglei state who have noticed fatal outbreaks of inter-community violence this year.
People who fled the fighting now cling to precarious positions, some stacking dust barriers around their homes. “They are exposed to malaria, waterborne diseases and snake bites as floods submerge their homes and farms,” says medical agreement Médecins sans frontiares.
“People are very frustrated,” local activist David Garang Goch said in the UN peacekeeping project in Bor, the capital of Jonglei state, as even the ancient royal city of The Kushite kings known as meroe Island, a place close to the UNESCO World Heritage Site. . the capital, Khartoum.
In Ethiopia, officials said this week that more than 200,000 people had been displaced, with five of the country’s nine areas affected and evacuations ongoing.
Flooding is the latest challenge as food costs rise due to other restrictions similar to the COVID-19 pandemic and after some crops and pastures have been lost due to swarms of older locusts amounting to millions or billions of insects.