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More floods expected in Sudan after 53 die
Topic Started: 16 Aug 2013, 12:26 AM (65 Views)
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15 AUGUST 2013

More floods expected in Sudan after 53 die

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A boy holds a goat out of flood waters as he makes his way to higher land on August 3 in Khartoum.

AFP - More flooding is expected in Sudan, the country's chief weather forecaster warned on Thursday, after severe rains have killed 53 people and affected about 200,000.

"According to our information there is heavy rain in Ethiopia, and we expect flooding in the coming days," Abdallah Khiar told reporters.

Rains in Ethiopia feed into the Blue Nile river which runs to Khartoum, Sudan's capital.

The city has already been worst-hit by the heavy rains and flash floods which began in Sudan on August 1 and inundated several states, according to the United Nations.

More rain is expected in Khartoum through Friday, Khiar said.

The Blue Nile has already begun to overflow its eastern bank but is about one metre (yard) below the reinforced west bank, an AFP correspondent observed in east Khartoum.

Fifty-three people around the country have died and 40,000 families, or about 200,000 people, have been affected, Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamed told the same press conference.

AFP found residents of a community east of the Blue Nile camped beside the road on Wednesday because their homes had been destroyed or damaged in the flash flooding.

They appealed for more aid but Hamed told reporters "the situation is under control" and there is no need to declare an emergency.

"We have stocks of medicine, food and shelter material to support the affected people," he said.

Qatar, Ethiopia and Egypt have already flown in aid.

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22 August 2013

Sudan deadly floods affect 300,000 people - WHO

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The region around the capital Khartoum is among the worst-hit areas, the WHO says

More than 300,000 people across Sudan have been affected by floods that have killed nearly 50 people in August, the World Health Organization has said.

It said the region around the capital Khartoum had been particularly badly hit and was experiencing the worst floods in 25 years.

One of the major risks to health was the collapse of more than 53,000 latrines, the WHO added.

A UN official in Sudan described the situation as "a huge disaster".

In a report, the WHO said that 48 people had been killed and 70 injured in the floods.

It warned of increasing trends of malaria cases in the past two weeks.

Meanwhile, Sudan Interior Minister Mahmoud Hamed put the confirmed death toll at 53, according to the AFP news agency.

The WHO also said property had been damaged in 14 of Sudan's 18 states.

Mark Cutts, the head of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan, told AFP last week the world body was ready to help those affected by the disaster.

He added that this was despite the fact that UN humanitarian operations "have been severely underfunded" this year.

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