Voanews.com by Anthony Mogga - 9 November 2013
BOR — Tens of thousands of people in South Sudan have been affected by flooding, more than a quarter of them in Jonglei state, United Nations officials said in a report released this week.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 223,474 people in eight of South Sudan's 10 states have been impacted by floods caused by heavy rains. More than 63,000 of those affected were in Jonglei state, OCHA said.
Other states hit by flooding were Central Equatoria, Lakes, Northern and Western Bahr el Ghazal, Unity, Upper Nile and Warrap.
