{"id":6292,"date":"2019-11-01T09:25:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T06:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","slug":"south-sudan-declares-state-of-emergency-in-flooding-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/01\/south-sudan-declares-state-of-emergency-in-flooding-states\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan Declares State Of Emergency In Flooding States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By The\nEast African<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South\nSudan government has declared a state of emergency in 27 flood-affected areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\npresidency said that the state of emergency was to allow humanitarian\norganisations access people in the affected areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French\nmedical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) estimates about 900,000 people\nhave been affected by the heavy rains across the country since July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Pibor,\none of the worst affected areas in the eastern region, roads have been cut off\nand bridges swept away, rendering them inaccessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With poor\nsanitation, there are fears of cholera and other waterborne diseases breaking\nout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe space\nis increasingly congested, thick with mud, has no latrines and just one\nfunctioning borehole. Some people are left with no alternative but to drink\nfrom the same open and contaminated water sources as they are washing in,\u201d MSF\nsaid in a statement on Thursday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/South-sudan-declares-state-of-emergency-in-flooding-states\/4552908-5332114-lf80fo\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The East African The South Sudan government has declared a state of emergency in 27 flood-affected areas. The presidency said that the state of emergency was to allow humanitarian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}