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 South Sudan May See the First Permanent Mass Displacement Due to Climate Change

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Protracted flooding has engulfed the country’s Sudd region due to more water entering the Nile upstream, which is driving conflict and disease and is potentially leaving the region uninhabitable.

https://www.wired.com/story/south-sudan-floods-the-first-example-of-a-mass-population-permanently-displaced-by-climate-change/