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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
More people, including a growing number of Venezuelans, are resorting to perilous crossings through the jungles of the Darien Gap in search of safety and stability, report @Refugees and @UNmigration
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
Number of Venezuelans crossing the Darien Gap soars https://t.co/2kQBhuNCmt
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
We know that if we do not act now, the cost will be high, with devastating human consequences. Accelerated action is required to avoid mounting losses, ensure we are better prepared, and secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
If we do not step up our support for the people of South Sudan, the climate crisis coupled with ongoing insecurity mean that resources will further shrink, leaving people with no means to survive.
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
Despite multiple challenges, residents have been extremely generous to those displaced by violence or hazardous weather events, often sharing the meagre resources they have. However, they need sustained support to avert devastating consequences.
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
Such climate events will worsen in future, as extremes become the norm, not the exception. Globally, floods and droughts are becoming more frequent and intense. Developing countries, like South Sudan, contribute the least to carbon emissions, but are disproportionately affected
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
The approaching wet season threatens to swamp extremely remote communities where residents are already surrounded by floodwater.
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
The impacts are especially harsh in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile states, where thousands of people have been displaced, while others are marooned in dike-ringed compounds, holding back floodwaters with mud, sticks and plastic sheeting.
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
Record rainfall in the past three years and overflowing rivers have flooded thousands of hectares of farmland in eight states and prevented people from cultivating. 800,000 livestock thought to have perished. This has decimated the subsistence farming that communities depend upon
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@RefugeesMedia - 29/03/2022
South Sudan – a fragile country struggling to overcome political and economic challenges since it gained independence in 2011 – had its worst flooding on record in 2021. More than 835,000 people were impacted, according to @UNOCHA
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