Name: The race to avert famine in flood-hit South Sudan
Uploaded: 2020-11-09T19:00:30.000Z
Duration: 1 min 56 s
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the worst rains in living memory have left farmer Alexandra Karama like many others in south Sudan, with nothing.

My groundnuts have all been swept away by the water.

No sorghum, no groundnuts, nothing full of math.

Now the government and humanitarian organizations are in a race to distribute seeds for replanting and of at a famine.

Like much off East Africa, south Sudan has suffered unusually prolonged torrential rains over the last year that have displaced hundreds of thousands.

The western town off Monterey, where Karama has has small holding, is one off the worst affected areas there.

On Tuesday, supplies were being distributed and the minister off Humanitarian effort and disaster management, Peter Myanmar Ginge.

It says the government and humanitarian agent needs to move quickly on.

We have also visited the distributions off sleeps and crops in order so that people could be able to cultivate back.

Despite the fact that many of the crops has already been destroyed, safari Juma peel off the UN's humanitarian aid, Bader said.

Aid is being distributed in Montgomery, where around 22,000 people have been affected by the flooding.

But he said the efforts are being hampered because rules to the area are impossible.

More than 600,000 people have fled their homes since July, the U.

 N said after the rains caused the river now to burst its banks. 

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The race to avert famine in flood-hit South Sudan

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