Published on 16/10/2024 23:56
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Global warming: in South Sudan, residents face rising water levels
With climate change, the White Nile is in flood in South Sudan. Three thousand families had to flee their villages and 300 of them settled on artificial islands.
(France 2)
With climate change, the White Nile is in flood in South Sudan. Three thousand families had to flee their villages and 300 of them settled on artificial islands.
For the fifth year in a row, the White Nile is in flood, a direct consequence of global warming. It is now flooding two-thirds of South Sudan. The inhabitants had to adapt and created artificial islands. Three thousand families lived on the mainland before the floods, fewer than 300 remain on the islands. “We built them by piling up grass and mud.”explains Sultan Makech Kuol Kuamy, chief of the Akwaks clan.
On one of the islands, 26 people are crowded into two huts. They lack everything, all the herds have died and the fields are destroyed. They have some dried fish and a little sugar cane left. South Sudan is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, due to its topography, but also the record rainfall in recent years. Residents build a new island with their bare hands.
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