[3] Significant flooding occurred in the vast wetland area of the Sudd, where the Nile branches into a complex network of smaller waterways, swamps, and floodplains.
In addition, the region's composition of silt and clay make water infiltration into the soil difficult, while floodwaters in the Sudd do not easily drain back into the White Nile's main channel.
These areas also suffered from disease outbreaks including malaria caused by standing water creating breeding grounds for vectors of infection and waterborne illnesses, in addition to increased animal attacks.
As a result of unprecedented flooding amounts and durations, indigenous communities of the Sudd which include the Anuak, Dinka, Shilluk, and Nuer people, were unable to adapt using traditional flood-prevention measures such as moving farm animals to higher ground or protecting infrastructure with compressed earth walls.
[2] The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund administered $10 million to assist roughly 700,000 citizens impacted by flooding in the Aweil East, Mayiandit, Fangak, Rubkona, and Nasir counties.