Over 7,000 people displaced by floods in Rubkona County – authorities

BENTIU – Local authorities in Rubkona County of South Sudan’s Unity state are reporting that over seventy-thousand (7,000) people have been affected by recent floods in different areas of the county.

Yam Ruot Gatdet, the Director of Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) in Rubkona County told Sudans Post in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that most areas in the entire country are covered by water displacing thousands of people.

“Currently, there is almost nowhere in the county where there is no water including many parts of Rubkona town leave alone its suburbs and all its payams,” Yam said on phone from Rubkona County headquarters.

Yam appealed to the state and central governments as well as the international aid organizations to intervene and help the floods-affected people saying most people from areas surrounding Rubkona town have decided to move up to Rubkona which is seen as a high land.

“Now many people have decided to come to Rubkona town, there is rise in hunger, people are dying from Malaria, snake bites and all the problems associated with floods. The number of people affected by floods is over 7000,” Yam added.

“So, I am urging the state and the central government to intervene together with the None-Governmental Organizations to intervene because the situation is currently worsening and we cannot handle it alone,” he added.