South Sudan: Oil-Rich Unity State Drowns as Wealth Flows Elsewhere

Dec 19, 2025
Radio Tamazuj
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For the sixth straight year, floodwaters have swallowed huge swaths of South Sudan, submerging villages and pastures and forcing tens of thousands of people onto shrinking islands of dry land. Nowhere is the crisis more acute than in oil-rich Unity State, where survival hinges on a fragile network of earthen dikes.