According to the United Nations humanitarian organization, over 1.3 million people have been impacted by catastrophic floods brought on by the torrential rains that have been falling on various sections of South Sudan.

In an update issued Friday in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that around 327,000 people had been displaced by the floods in 42 districts and the Abyei Administrative Area.

OCHA stated that heavy rainfall and flooding have rendered 15 major supply routes impassable, severely limiting access to affected areas. “Joint government and interagency assessments in the last week found an additional 230,000 people in Jonglei, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, and Upper Nile states to be affected,” the agency said.

According to Xinhua news agency, the UN agency warned that persistent floods and increased rains have made it harder for humanitarian workers to physically reach impacted people seeking shelter on higher ground because of damaged and inaccessible roads.

Several villages have been wrecked, highways and important infrastructure have been inundated, and homes and livelihoods have been affected in many areas of South Sudan, which is now experiencing some of its worst floods in decades.

According to OCHA, the UN prediction has called for above-normal rainfall, river flows from Uganda, and perhaps record-breaking floods.

According to the UN agencies’ early warnings on the extreme food insecurity forecast for June to October, the nation is among the 18 hunger hotspots in the world where food security is worsening.