South Sudan: ‘Fleeing danger, finding water scarcity’: sanitary emergency threatens people in Abyei Special Administrative Area
September 18, 2024Juba, South Sudan, 16 September 2024 – A water, sanitation and hygiene crisis is unfolding in Abyei Special Administrative Area, fueling the ongoing hepatitis E outbreak, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Poor sanitation, severe water shortages, and inadequate infrastructure are...
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South Sudan: Communities prepare for renewed flooding ahead of rainy season
August 1, 2023In a parched landscape, an MSF tractor roars as it approaches a small village in Dentiuk, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. It is towing a trailer to which a creaking wooden canoe is strapped. “Are you sure we are...
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One year on: Soaring needs in Twic County, South Sudan
May 15, 2023Under the shadow of a tree, a group is gathering, exchanging greetings. Peter, a mental health counsellor for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Margaret Abuk, MSF health promoter, are conducting an awareness and educational session for a group of overfifty...
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Catastrophic floods cause mass displacement and an escalating humanitarian crisis in South Sudan
December 21, 2022A small makeshift raft made from plastic sheeting and filled with dry grass is drifting along the Nile River’s current, on it sits an entire family of eight – the youngest just a baby. Where they will end up is...
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South Sudan: “The only way to move around the hospital now is by boat”
October 25, 2019MSF medical team leader Benedetta Capelli is just back from Pibor, in South Sudan, where rising floodwaters have engulfed MSF’s hospital and much of the surrounding area. She describes what she saw on the ground. Our hospital in Pibor is on the outskirts...
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