Ref: UNS/LC/09/20
Date: 30th September 2024
APPEAL FOR HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
On 29th September 2024, heavy rain started raining from 4:15 PM and lasted up to 11:25 PM.
This heavy downpour caused flooding in which the County HQs and County Hospital are submerged under flood waters.
This morning the Longechuk County Flood Taskforce Committee have assessed the general situations of the affected communities within the County HQs and received reports from payam administrators.
The flood caused widespread destruction of livelihoods and properties in many payams of the County.
Furthermore, the flood waters cover the grazing grasses for livestock resulting their death due to starvation and diseases.
Additionally, the affected estimated population of 202,520 persons in all payams (Mathiang, Jangok, Belwang, Guelguk, Malow-Wetber, Malual, Pamach, Gueng, Warweng, Pakur, Chotbora, Dajo, Jak, Jongjith, Pachimbi and Udier) of the County.
The affected population include: 8,742 returnees who were coming from North Sudan/Ethiopia and Ethiopian refugees 2,000 individuals who came from Ethiopia and 5,640 IDPs of Koma of South Sudan are now residing at Dajo Payam;
The flood waters also increased cases of snake bites in the whole County and thus, the schools are to be suspended due to high level of water.
The situation has been worsened by lack of machines and instruments to build and improvise the dykes.
However,, the situation has exposed the population of Longechuk County to humanitarian shock as it has exhausted the traditional coping mechanism of the communities.
I call upon and appeal to State and National governments, NGOs, partners and well-wishers to intervene and salvage the communities of Longechuk County by providing humanitarian needs caused by the flood.
Finally, the Longechuk County Flood Taskforce Committee will be extended an assessment to the most affected payams by floods within this week.
Hon. Dak Tut Dei, Commissioner-Longechuk County,
Mathiang.Contacts: +211 (0)917052477
WhatsApp: +211 (0)918960181
Email: daktut3@gmail.com
To Copy
1. Governor’s Office, Upper Nile State, Malakal, Chairperson of UNS Flood Taskforce Committee;
2. Deputy Governor’s Office, Upper Nile State, Malakal, D/Chairperson of UNS Flood Taskforce Committee;
3. Minister, Ministry of Local Government and Law Enforcement, Upper Nile State;
4. Minister, Ministry of Health/Malakal;
5. RRC Chairperson Commission’s Office, Upper Nile State;
6. RRC Coordinator’s office, Longechuk County;
7. NGOs’-Representatives, Longechuk County;8. County Executive Director of Longechuk;
9. County Health Department (CHD); and
10. File
Please find enclosed link to the July Humanitarian Snapshot.
HIGHLIGHTS
* South Sudan continued to face a severe humanitarian crisis driven by different shocks and triggers, such as severe food insecurity, a record level of flooding, unprecedented inflation, disease outbreaks, intercommunal violence and spillover of the Sudan crisis, resulting in the movement of 769,264 people since April 2023.
* An estimated 7.1 million people were facing severe food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) as of July, reflecting a 21 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2023.
* Between January and July, the South Sudanese pound (SSP) depreciated by over 70 per cent, making basic commodities unaffordable to many. Since July 2023, the price of 3.5 kg sorghum has increased by 256 per cent from 3,000 SSP to 10,700 SSP.
* On 17 July, an outbreak of hepatitis E virus was declared in Abyei. New confirmed cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 were reported in Nasir and Juba counties.
Additional information on the situation in South Sudan is available on the following websites:
unocha.org/south-sudan
southsudan.humanitarianresponse.info
reliefweb.int/country/ssd
