Nearly a quarter of South Sudan's population has been affected by years of unprecedented flooding, according to a report Tuesday by the UN Development Programme and the government's relief and rehabilitation commission.
Four straight years of flooding have impacted more than 2.6 million people across the world's newest nation, forcing many to turn to wild fruits and leaves for sustenance, the report said.
The annual floods since 2019 -- a recent phenomenon that many experts link to climate change -- have turned 10 percent of the country's arable land to swamp at a time when two out of three South Sudanese do not have enough to eat. Since then it has spent more than half its existence at war, with nearly 400,000 people dying during a five-year civil conflict that ended in 2018.
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