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 scrap of land surrounded by flooding, families drink and bathe from the waters that swept away latrines and continue to rise.
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 scrap of land surrounded by flooding, families drink and bathe from the waters that swept away latrines and continue to rise.
South Sudan ravaged by floods - Our children die in our hands A father and his sons transport cows from a flooded area to drier ground using a dugout canoe, in Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan. Some one million people in the country have been displaced or isolated for months by the worst flooding in memory, with the intense rainy season a sign of climate change. Picture by Maura Ajak, AP Maura Ajak, Associated Press 01 January, 2021 15:46
Children wash themselves in muddy floodwaters in the village of Wang Chot, Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan. Malaria and diarrheal diseases are spreading. Picture by Maura Ajak, AP
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 scrap of land surrounded by flooding, families drink and bathe from the waters that swept away latrines and continue to rise.
On a scrap of land surrounded by flooding in South Sudan, families drink and bathe from the waters that swept away latrines and continue to rise.
Nearly a million people in the country 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 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 health care as malaria and diarrhoeal diseases spread.