The UN relief agency UNHCR estimates that severe food insecurity affects 60 per cent of the population. Nyadiang Gak, a mother who has twice fled with her children from flooding villages, said: 'Now it is time to harvest sorghum, but we couldn't even plant it… I planted maize next to my home, but when the second flood came, it destroyed it and I didn't even get to harvest it… Now we are hungry'. The extreme scale of the floods this causes each summer further inundates the saturated landscape of Southern Sudan. [Extracted from the article]