ANKARA

Almost 490,000 children have been affected by heavy floods currently hitting South Sudan, the UN’s children agency said on Friday.

The UNICEF described the scope and scale of the current flooding as “severe”, especially in “the former states of Jonglei, Upper Nile, Warrap, and Northern Bahr El Ghazal.”

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