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South Sudanese community fights to save land from relentless flooding worsened by climate change
The Akuak community of 2,000 people manually rebuilds islands with papyrus and mud to protect homes amid climate-change-driven floods causing over 375,000 displacements this year, UN officials say.
- This year, the Akuak community of about 2,000 people maintains islands in a Nile River swamp area using layered plants and mud, living on atolls reached only by canoes.
- In recent years, researchers say climate change has worsened floods, with South Sudan in its sixth year of catastrophic flooding displacing over 375,000 people, according to UN OCHA.
- Ayen Deng Duot, mother of six, wades waist-deep cutting papyrus and layering plants and clay to expand her island of about 50 square meters , while the first school opened in 2018 later closed due to floods.
- Akuak families turned from cattle to fishing decades ago, relying on nets and canoes, and residents say they are poorer yet many stay on ancestral land since moving to Bor is difficult.
- Chief Makech Kuol Kuany remains hopeful water levels could recede as in the 1960s, while the community sustains a church on a larger island despite needing soil compaction and repair measures to resume farming.
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South Sudanese community fights to save land from relentless flooding worsened by climate change
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