NEW: DavidMuir and his team traveled to South Sudan to report on yet another front line of the climate crisis, with more than 1 million people now facing severe food insecurity due to the worst floods here since the 1960s, according to the U.N.
April 19, 2023, 6:03 AMDavid Muir and his team traveled to South Sudan to report on another front line of the climate crisis, with more than 1 million people now facing severe food insecurity due to the worst floods here since the 1960s, according to the United Nations.And as it covered everything she owned in her hometown of Niahldiu, Nyathak took her children through the waters to the shore, waiting to be rescued.
"ABC World News Tonight" anchor David Muir and his team traveled to South Sudan to report on yet another front line of the climate crisis, with more than 1 million people now facing severe food insecurity due to the worst floods here since the 1960s, according to the United Nations. "We were totally taken aback ... We were completely surrounded by water, and Bentiu had basically become an island. It was really heartbreaking to see all the villages underwater and the people and their livestock getting displaced," Waqar told Muir in Tong, one of the villages now isolated due to the flooding. "These people, they're not water-based communities, so they had no canoes or boats to transport their items.
ABC News was there as humanitarian convoys traveled the only road in and out of the region -- the Bentiu Panakuach Road -- that comes from Sudan, witnessing the aid's uncertain future, as the road is threatened by rising waters in the coming rainy season and now conflict north of the border in Sudan.
With farmland now covered by water, mothers now collect water lilies from the flood waters to feed their children.Chand warned that, with conflict elsewhere in the world, attention and funding have moved away from South Sudan. Currently, the organization is only able to provide food rations for half the month.
"Water and sanitation is a big issue here, as well, so diarrheal diseases are very common," Chand said. "If you don't have safe drinking water or safe cooking water, then whatever you cook also can harm your child."Mothers arrive to a nutrition site in Bentiu, desperate for help. So many don't have enough food, so they are forced to feed their babies with water lilies, which grow in the flood waters, to keep their bellies full.
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