South Sudan: Rising Health Risks in South Sudan: Radioactive and Toxic Contamination

Jul 9, 2018 | Francis Michael, Via News
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Plug County is located in the Melut Basin, home to South Sudan’s most productive – and hence polluting – oil fields. In view of this proximity, it is no wonder that Plug has become a focal point of the South Sudanese rising against the oil companies responsible for the poisoning of their lands and thus their lives. Babies born with birth defects and life-threatening infections, children afflicted with devastating skin diseases, the widespread death of livestock – the list of complaints repeatedly voiced by the people of Plug is long. Recipient of their pleas has been the government of South Sudan, which has completely failed to act upon them – or even respond to them.