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    This is what it's like to deliver aid in South Sudan

    Emergency teams are stretched in one of the world's most expensive countries to deliver aid. The humanitarian community is bracing for resources — both human and financial — to be further strained in coming months due to a particularly challenging mix of geographical, logistical and bureaucratic factors.

    By Sam Mednick // 06 March 2017

    TAYAR ISLAND, South Sudan — Kiden Loice steps into the narrow canoe, careful not to rock the boat and fall into the murky swamp below. Slowly inching toward the bow, Oxfam’s emergency response team leader takes a seat before the rest of her crew settles in and braces for the journey ahead. Two and a half hours of navigating muddy waters in a rickety coconut tree canoe awaits.

    This is Loice’s second trip in less than a week to Tayar Island in South Sudan’s Unity State — the epicenter for the region’s most recent cholera outbreak.

    What used to be a trading site and home to just a few hundred people, Tayar Island has become a refuge to more than 2,300 internally displaced South Sudanese who have fled their homes during the country’s three-year civil war. Without toilets or access to clean water, people defecate where they bathe and use the same soiled waters to cook. The actions have resulted in an extremely rare dry season cholera epidemic.

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      Sam Mednick is a Devex Contributing Reporter based in Burkina Faso. Over the past 15 years she has reported on conflict, post-conflict, and development stories from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe. She recently spent almost three years reporting on the conflict in South Sudan as the Associated Press correspondent. Her work has also appeared in The New Humanitarian, VICE, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera, among others.

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