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C. More than 4,000 people died in Derna, Libya, after a Mediterranean cyclone brought torrential rains to the North African nation and led to the collapse of two dams in September. An Indian Ocean cyclone last March left more than 1,700 dead and missing in Malawi in southeast Africa. That was the second-highest death toll in flooding in 16 African nations.
A. South Sudan is bordered by Ethiopia to the east; Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the south; Central African Republic to the west; and Sudan to the north. Flooding this year killed and displaced hundreds of people in the upstream nations of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
D. The UN’s COP23 climate meeting runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 in the United Arab Emirates, one of the most vulnerable to climate change countries in the world. Rising temperatures are already severely impacting daily life in the very hot and humid climate of the Persian Gulf. Egypt, Israel, and Jordan are all on the Gulf of Aqaba on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula.
D. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, making it the most recent sovereign state or country with widespread recognition as of 2023.