Climate Change Creates New Front Line in South Sudan After Historic Flooding

More than 1 million people in South Sudan are facing severe food insecurity due to the worst floods since the 1960s, with hundreds of thousands displaced and cut off from supplies. The floods have claimed farmland, leaving one in five children severely malnourished and mothers forced to feed them water lilies from the flood waters. The World Food Programme is racing against time to preposition food before the rainy season starts, but funding and attention have moved away from South Sudan due to conflict elsewhere in the world.