South Sudan approves USD 10-milion relief aid to flood victims

Michael Makuei Lueth (howafrica.com)

The South Sudan government has approved USD 10 million as an emergency relief package to support people affected by floods in 7 states across the country since May, according to reports.

As per the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Michael Makuei Lueth, the relief package approved by the cabinet will be used to help resettle those displaced from their homes, in addition to providing food relief to them. It comes after the people who are displaced are very much affected by floods, and after the floods have subsided they need to be resettled in their areas of origin because they don't have anything at present and all that they need is to be rescued now," he told journalists after the weekly cabinet meeting.

According to estimates, more or less 4,00,000 people have been affected and displaced by heavy flooding, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). OCHA recently revealed that the worst affected populations by floods are in Jonglei, Unity, Warrap, Greater Pibor Administrative Area, Lakes, Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal and Upper Nile state.

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