People all over the world are suffering due to pandemic but in some countries, there is something more than just the pandemic. In East Africa, flooding has affected over a million people along with threatening food security on top of a historic locust outbreak and the coronavirus pandemic. The Nile River has hit its highest levels in a half-century under heavy seasonal rainfall, and large parts of Sudan, Ethiopia and South Sudan have been swamped amid climate change.
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As warnings of a new famine grow in South Sudan, the United Nations states flooding there has affected at least a half-million people, many in areas of Jonglei state that saw bursts of deadly intercommunal violence this year. People who escaped the fighting now cling to precarious positions, some piling mud barriers around their homes. They are exposed to malaria, waterborne diseases and snakebites as floodwaters overwhelm their homes and farms, the medical charity Doctors say.
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The flooding further hinders attempts to deliver compassionate aid in a country where more than half the population of over 6 million people is said to be hungry. In Sudan, the floods have killed more than 100 people this summer and flooded over 100,000 houses, threatening even the ancient royal city of the Kushite kings known as the Island of Meroe, a UNESCO World Heritage site near the capital, Khartoum. In Ethiopia, officials this week said more than 200,000 people have been displaced, with five of the country's nine regions affected and evacuations underway.