Misery on the march
A refugee crisis is miserably taking shape
AID workers have started calling the waterlogged outskirts of the Jamam refugee camp in South Sudan the “lake district” after a picturesque, often wet part of north-west England. The arrival of the rainy season in Upper Nile state has turned the camp into a swamp where 30,000 people are scrambling for dry land. Half the inhabitants were to be evacuated to another camp three hours’ drive away, but the transfer was delayed after that site was partially flooded too.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Misery on the march”
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