South Sudan: How climate change can turn toxic
Years of flooding have resulted in disastrous water pollution in South Sudan's main oil region. As communities, scientists and health workers scramble for solutions, the long-term impacts of the crisis is yet to emerge.
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The village of Bentiu has seen it all: Located in the north of South Sudan near the border with Sudan, the capital of Unity State used to have a population of merely several thousand people.
But war, violence and other crisis have resulted in an additional 140,000 displaced persons seeking shelter there since 2013, resulting in the establishment of a massive camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Several UN bodies including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) are active on the ground, running what is known as the Protection of Civilians (POC) camp, which by now feels more like a permanent structure.
At a makeshift pier, children are seen playing, countless canoes bring in fish to feed scores of people at the camp, where food insecurity remains a chief concern.
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