{"id":26698,"date":"2022-11-01T15:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:26:13","slug":"60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county","title":{"rendered":"60,000 displaced by floods in Melut County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The commissioner of Melut County in Upper Nile State has described the flood situation as very awful \u2013 after reported tens of thousands of people were displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Deng Jou said on Tuesday, fresh floods has battered four Payams of Melut County, displacing 60,000 of the locals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation here in the county I can say that it\u2019s very awful, the southern area have been affected completely and seriously by the floods,\u201d said the commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the floods started after the River Nile burst its banks, flooding Galdora, Tan-grial, Po-nom-dit and Wena-num Payams.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Eye Radio from Melut, he said the magnitude of flooding is increasing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first statistic, and we are sure because the number of people is increasing, two days ago we did our statistic and we know that in Galdora Payam alone, there have been more than sixty thousand people have been affected, not to mention the other Payams because we have an issue of accessibility there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Jou appealed to aid agencies to carry out an assessment and provide humanitarian assistance to the affected people.<\/p>\n<p>He said several households in parts of the four Payams are lacking food and shelter.<\/p>\n<p>According to a UN report, around one million people have been affected by extreme flooding in South Sudan this year, while conflict and economic dislocation have created a renewed famine risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. The commissioner of Melut County in Upper Nile State has described the flood situation as very awful \u2013 after reported tens of thousands of people were displaced. Deng Jou said on Tuesday, fresh floods has battered four Payams of Melut County, displacing 60,000 of the locals. \u201cThe situation here in the county [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-26698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>60,000 displaced by floods in Melut County - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The commissioner of Melut County in Upper Nile State has described the flood situation as very awful \u2013 after reported te ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"60,000 displaced by floods in Melut County\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The commissioner of Melut County in Upper Nile State has described the flood situation as very awful \u2013 after reported te ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-01T15:49:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-01T16:26:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_29.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"880\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"386\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"60,000 displaced by floods in Melut County\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-01T15:49:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-01T16:26:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_29.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/60000-displaced-by-floods-in-melut-county\",\"name\":\"60,000 displaced by floods in Melut County - 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