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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 the Nile River swamp area by layering plants and mud, living on atolls in tukul huts and traveling by canoes.
- In recent years, rising floods driven by climate change have worsened island upkeep, with South Sudan facing six consecutive years of flooding and over 375,000 displaced, according to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
- Ayen Deng Duot, a mother of six, stands 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 but many remain on ancestral land despite difficulties relocating to Bor.
- Chief Makech Kuol Kuany remains hopeful water levels could recede as they did in the 1960s, while the community sustains a church on a larger island and urgently repairs soil compaction with soil and grass to recover dry land and resume farming.
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South Sudanese community fights to save land from relentless flooding worsened by climate change
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