NEW YORK/JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN, September 22, 2020—Severe flooding is displacing thousands of people around Pibor, South Sudan, worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis caused by conflict this year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today, urging other aid organizations to provide food, relief items, shelter, water and medical services in the region.
Intercommunal conflict caused large-scale displacement and loss of life in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area in the first half of 2020, leaving people without many resources to cope with another disaster. After the conflict stabilized, MSF relaunched an emergency intervention in August, opening a clinic in Pibor. The community also experienced massive flooding last year, and the clinic is located in the only place in Pibor town that did not flood then.