Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi

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Displaced women transport firewood in their pirogue as they wade through flood water in Bentiu on February 6, 2023. – Four straight years of flooding, an unprecedented phenomenon linked to climate change, has swamped two-thirds of South Sudan but nowhere more dramatically than Bentiu, a northern city besieged by water.<br />
Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped beneath the water line, protected only by earthen dykes that must be constantly checked and reinforced to avoid a catastrophic breach.<br />
The monumental crisis is illustrative of a wider disaster befalling South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, and one of the most vulnerable to climate change.<br />
One million people in the Nile Basin nation have been affected by year-on-year floods that have submerged an area larger than Denmark in a cycle of extreme inundations since 2019.<br />
Millions of livestock have perished and ten percent of the country’s arable land has turned to swamp at a time when 7.7 million people do not have enough to eat. (Photo by Simon MAINA / AFP) (Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)

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