By Philip Buda Ladu<\/p>\n
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Cabinet on Thursday endorsed a memo requesting President Salva Kiir to declare a \u201cState of Emergency\u201d in flood-affected states.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This came in an Extraordinary Council of Ministers meeting on Thursday where the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs presented a memo on the impact of the floods across the country.<\/p>\n Deputy National Minister of Information, Jacob Maiju Korok, addressed the media, confirming the cabinet’s actions.<\/p>\n He noted that the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Hon. Albino Akol Atak, presented a memo detailing the severe impact of the floods in South Sudan, which have devastated communities, displaced people and animals, and destroyed essential infrastructure.<\/p>\n He explained that declaring floods a national disaster or state of emergency means mobilizing some resources from the donors to rescue the citizens from the impacts of natural calamities.<\/p>\n According to Humanitarian Minister Mr. Akol, as of October 1, 2024,\u00a0the floods have impacted 772,000 people across South Sudan\u2019s 38 counties and Abyei Administrative Area, with a population of 198,000 people verified as displaced people (IDPs).<\/p>\n The flood also destroyed schools, hospitals, and other important infrastructure in the states.<\/p>\n Although the government said it was jointly responding to the floods with its partner in the affected areas and states across the country, the situation still looks dire.<\/p>\n Akol maintained that there is a possibility of the floods peaking in November 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cSo the minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management requested the council of ministers to recommend to H.E. President Salva Kiir Mayardit a declaration of a national disaster due to floods in the affected states like Jonglei, Upper Nile, Unity State, Warrap, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, and Abyei Special Administrative Area,\u201d he told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n Now with the cabinet unanimously passing and endorsing the memo on the declaration of floods, national disaster president Salva Kiir Mayardit will be expected to declare a \u201cState of Emergency\u201d on floods anytime from now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBy declaring a national disaster, you actually mobilize some resources from the donors to support the citizens in the national disaster,\u201d Akol lamented.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Philip Buda Ladu Cabinet on Thursday endorsed a memo requesting President Salva Kiir to declare a \u201cState of Emergency\u201d in flood-affected states. This came in an Extraordinary Council of Ministers meeting on Thursday where the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs presented a memo on the impact of the floods[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Some-properties-submerged-in-flood-water-in-Bentiu-Unity-State.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29311,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29309\/revisions\/29311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}