Devastating flooding in South Sudan affected around 1.4 million people, and displaced 379,000, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the East African country.
“About 1.4 million people are affected by flooding in 43 counties and the Abyei Administrative Area, with Jonglei and Northern Bahr el Ghazal states comprising more than 51 per cent of the affected population,” OCHA said in a statement.
It added that more than 379,000 people were displaced in 22 counties and Abyei.
Since gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan has been plagued by chronic instability, violence and economic stagnation as well as climate disasters such as drought and floods.
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