South Sudanese refugees homeless again

A view of the flooded refugee camp in South Sudan
A view of the flooded refugee camp in South Sudan
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AFP :
South Sudanese refugee Dawood Kour fled to Sudan to turn the page on a life of displacement, only to
be forced onto the streets once more after floodwaters submerged his rickety shelter. Kour crossed the border in November, fleeing years of conflict in his homecity of Malakal-itself prone to flooding.South Sudan became the world’s newest independent nation in 2011, seceding from Sudan. But in late 2013, it plunged into a devastating, five-year civil war that it has yet to fully recover from.
Since fleeing, Kour had lived in the Al-Qanaa camp, a growing community of around 35,000 refugees in the Al-Jabalain district of White Nile state. But this month, Kour was displaced yet again as floodwaters inundated the camp. He moved to the nearest patch of dry land he could find – the roadside.

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