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By Press Association 2021 A mother holds her baby as she is transported by dugout canoe through floodwaters in the village of Wang Chot, Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan Some one million people in South Sudan have been displaced or isolated for months by the worst flooding in memory, with the intense rainy season a sign of climate change. The waters began rising in June, washing away crops, swamping roads and worsening hunger and disease in the young nation struggling to recover from civil war. Now famine is a threat. On a s...

Thatched huts surrounded by floodwaters are seen from the air in Old Fangak County, Jonglei state (Maura Ajak/AP) On a recent visit by the Associated Press to the Old Fangak area in hard-hit Jonglei state, parents spoke of walking for hours in chest-deep water to find food and healthcare as malaria and diarrheal diseases spread. Regina Nyakol Piny, a mother of nine, now lives in a primary school in the village of Wangchot after their home was swamped. “We don’t have food here, we rely only on UN humanitarian agencies or by collecting firewood and selling it,” she said.

By Press Association 2021 A mother holds her baby as she is transported by dugout canoe through floodwaters in the village of Wang Chot, Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan Some one million people in South Sudan have been displaced or isolated for months by the worst flooding in memory, with the intense rainy season a sign of climate change. The waters began rising in June, washing away crops, swamping roads and worsening hunger and disease in the young nation struggling to recover from civil war. Now famine is a threat. On a s...

By Press Association 2021 A mother holds her baby as she is transported by dugout canoe through floodwaters in the village of Wang Chot, Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan Some one million people in South Sudan have been displaced or isolated for months by the worst flooding in memory, with the intense rainy season a sign of climate change. The waters began rising in June, washing away crops, swamping roads and worsening hunger and disease in the young nation struggling to recover from civil war. Now famine is a threat. On a s...

By Press Association 2021 A mother holds her baby as she is transported by dugout canoe through floodwaters in the village of Wang Chot, Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan Some one million people in South Sudan have been displaced or isolated for months by the worst flooding in memory, with the intense rainy season a sign of climate change. The waters began rising in June, washing away crops, swamping roads and worsening hunger and disease in the young nation struggling to recover from civil war. Now famine is a threat. On a s...