Nearly a Million Affected By South Sudan Flooding, Warns UN: SouthSudan
Estimates by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs say some 909,000 people are suffering in the country of 11 million.
In oil-rich Unity state - one of the worst-hit regions - rising water levels breached dykes in two places on Sunday, threatening to flood camps for internally displaced people as well as a base for the UN Mission in South Sudan.
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