Residents of the IDP camp in Bentiu go about their daily lives. The IDP camp is a sea of tarp-rooved shelters continuing on as far as the eye can see. Residents of the IDP camps in Bentiu want to live in better circumstances. Their homes are flooded daily. They fish for food and they eat the water lillies in the flooded waters surrounding the camp. They walk great distances to sell and buy what little there is to offer at the market. Bentiu, South Sudan, 22/08/2022

Seventeen year old Kamundi Makieu Pingiel, who has been bitten by a soldier snake. The snake bit him while he was asleep in his tent and managed to bite him through his mosquito net. He was able to kill the snake for anti-venom identification. He had to walk a day to arrive at the hospital and the venom has reached from the bite on his hand to the top part of his arm. Should the venom manage to travel to the brain the bite would be lethal. Antivenom treatment was commenced as soon as possible. 26/08/2022

Homes have been flooded in Bentiu for over four years and are predicted to drain slowly over the next six years. A man wades with a net to catch fish in the floodwaters around Bentiu. According to Joshua Kanyara, IOM Emergency Coordinator, dry land in Bentiu owes its existence to humanitarian-built dykes and roads. In August 2022, flooding spanned 80km and the dykes, constructed by aid organisations, are approximately 2.5 metres high and up to 5 metres wide. The IDP camp in Bentiu houses in excess of 112,000 people displaced due to flooding or conflict. Bentiu, South Sudan 21/08/2022

The flooded landscape of Bentiu is visible from the air. ⁠ ⁠ According to Joshua Kanyara, IOM Emergency Coordinator, dry land in Bentiu owes its existence to humanitarian-built dykes and roads. In August 2022, flooding spanned 80km and the dykes, constructed by aid organisations, are approximately 2.5 metres high and up to 5 metres wide. The IDP camp in Bentiu houses in excess of 112,000 people displaced due to flooding or conflict. ⁠ Bentiu, South Sudan 21/08/2022⁠ ⁠ This photo was taken out of the window of a UN operated Russian MI-8 MTV-1 Helicopter. This is not a drone aerial photo.⁠ ⁠

Emaciated cattle are herded along the main road in Bentiu town. Homes have been flooded in Bentiu for over 4 years now and are predicted to drain slowly over the next 6 years. A cattle herder walks along the main road of Bentiu town which cuts through the flood waters on either side of the road in Bentiu. Bentiu town, South Sudan 22/8/22.

A cargo plane just off the runway at Bentiu landing strip, which slipped off the runway and crashed. Torrential rains have impacted the runaway at the local airport. Several cargo planes can be seen littered around the airstrip, having landed upon slippery mud and crashed. Roads are often too muddy to walk on, causing people use the apex of the dykes as pathways. According to Joshua Kanyara, IOM Emergency Coordinator, dry land in Bentiu owes its existence to humanitarian-built dykes and roads. In August 2022, flooding spanned 80km and the dykes, constructed by aid organisations, are approximately 2.5 metres high and up to 5 metres wide. The IDP camp in Bentiu houses in excess of 112,000 people displaced due to flooding or conflict. Bentiu, South Sudan 21/08/2022

A woman enters her makeshift shelter in the evening rainstorm at the IDP camp in Abyei . 26/08/2022

Goat herders from the IDP camp in Abyei walk home in the evening rainstorm. 26/08/2022 Abyei, South Sudan.

Mary Nyantey is forty years old. When her village flooded and she was forced to flee, she could not carry her children through the floodwaters. Instead, she tied her children inside a sack made from a large plastic tarp (previously used to cover her home) and swam them to safety, dragging the floating sack of children behind her. While now safe from the floodwaters, she and her family have no regular access to food and are forced to collect a plant called ‘Yell’ from a nearby river to eat. ⁠ ⁠ Mary shows the seeds from the fruit of ‘Yell’ in the foreground. This is what she and her family are surviving on in one of Bentiu's IDP camps, Bentiu, South Sudan, 22/08/2022.⁠

Crops can finally grow and be propagated safely upon the de-mined soil of Canal village. This land they settled on was dry but contained a minefield. The villiagers are celebrating the de-mining of the land, by UNMASS so that they can now propgate it and live upon it safely. 11/08/2022 - Canal Villiage, Malakal, Upper Niles State, South Sudan. "Early this year, UNMAS responded to community requests from a remote village in Canal where IDPs had resettled on a known minefield. In March 2022, following on from several Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) sessions delivered by UNMAS, Chief of Mine Action, Mr. Fran O’Grady, visited Canal to assess how clearance activities could be undertaken, in what was a race against time to get mechanical demining machinery on a barge to the site before the onset of the wet season. Thankfully, this was achieved through solid team effort that resulted in the disposal of more than 25 anti-personnel mines and the clearance of over 17,000 sqm of land, making it safe for the estimated 1,500 people to settle and undertake agricultural activities, as well as for safe access for humanitarian response." - Fran O'Grady UNMAS

Canal villiage and it's residents celebrate that the land they have resettled on after becoming IDPs as a consequesnce is now safe land. This land they settled on was dry but contained a minefield. The villagers are celebrating the de-mining of the land, by UNMASS so that they can now propagate it and live upon it safely. "Early this year, UNMAS responded to community requests from a remote village in Canal where IDPs had resettled on a known minefield. In March 2022, following on from several Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) sessions delivered by UNMAS, Chief of Mine Action, Mr. Fran O’Grady, visited Canal to assess how clearance activities could be undertaken, in what was a race against time to get mechanical demining machinery on a barge to the site before the onset of the wet season. Thankfully, this was achieved through solid team effort that resulted in the disposal of more than 25 anti-personnel mines and the clearance of over 17,000 sqm of land, making it safe for the estimated 1,500 people to settle and undertake agricultural activities, as well as for safe access for humanitarian response." - Fran O'Grady UNMAS

A young girl walks along the apex of a dyke separating the flooding from the roads. ⁠ ⁠ The roads are often too muddy to walk on so people most often walk along the apex of the dykes. Bentiu is unique in that anywhere where there is dry land it is only due to humanitarian-built dykes; explained Joshua Kanyara, IOM Emergency Coordinator. The floods span 80km, and the dykes are approximately 2.5 metres high and up to 5 metres wide. The IDP camp in Bentiu shelters 112,000+ people all displaced due to flooding and / or violence in their villages. ⁠ ⁠ Bentiu, South Sudan 21/08/2022⁠