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'Uncharted territory': South Sudan's four years of flooding

Tong village in Bentiu, South Sudan

Internally displaced people use a boat in flooded Tong village in Bentiu, South Sudan on February 7, 2023. PHOTO | SIMON MAINA | AFP

By  AFP

Bentiu

It had not rained properly for months but the floods kept coming, inching up the mud-earth fortifications that stood between Bentiu's marooned and starving people and the endless water beyond.

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