Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi

  • Displaced women transport firewood in their pirogue as they wade through flood water in Bentiu on February 6, 2023. &#8211; 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&#8217;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&#8217;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)Commentary

    The energy transition is under threat as the Global South lags behind

    By Makhtar Diop and Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi