Oct. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Around 910,000 people have been affected by the floods recorded in recent months in South Sudan, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which has highlighted that about 65 percent of the victims focuses on three states.
The agency has indicated that 909,000 people have been affected by the floods in a total of 29 counties, with 64 percent of them in North Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap and Unity and the destruction of crop fields and heads of cattle, which deepening the humanitarian crisis.
OCHA has highlighted that the floods have also swept away roads and bridges, destroyed houses, schools and health facilities and covered existing wells and latrines in these areas, contaminating water sources and increasing the risk of disease.
Thus, the agency indicated in September that around 8.9 million people need humanitarian aid in the country due to floods, high levels of food insecurity, violence and disease outbreaks.
The OCHA also pointed out that there are 2.2 million internally displaced persons in the country, while 2.33 million people have fled to neighboring countries due to the humanitarian crisis. In total, there are about 7.7 million people suffering from malnutrition, including 1.4 million children.
The floods, added to the violence and the coronavirus pandemic, are worsening the humanitarian situation in the African country, plunged into a transition process after the 2018 peace agreement between the government and the main rebel groups.
South Sudan has a unity government that was launched after the materialization of the peace agreement signed in 2018 by the president, Salva Kiir, and the rebel leader Riek Machar, who was reappointed to the position he held before the war. civil. Among the main pending issues is the unification of the security forces, scheduled for November.
