South Sudan is facing one of its worst flood seasons in decades at the same time as it’s struggling to host more than a half million war refugees from the civil war in neighboring Sudan. Dr. Mohammed Bashir of Doctors Without Borders is in Twic County near the border separating the two countries. He describes for The World’s Carolyn Beeler what he’s been seeing.
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