Flooding cause by torrential rains in Sudan has killed 77 people so far and destroyed an estimated 14,500 homes, reports Al Jazeera.
The spokesman for Sudan’s National Council for Civil Defence, Brigadier General Abdul-Jalil Abdul-Rahim, confirmed this on Thursday.
Most affected provinces due to heavy seasonal rains include North Kordofan, Gezira, South Kordofan, South Darfur and River Nile, the spokesman said.
Heavy rains usually fall in Sudan between May and October, and the country faces severe flooding every year that wreaks havoc to property, infrastructure and crops.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported earlier this week that, according to the government’s Humanitarian Aid Commission, humanitarian organizations, and local authorities, more than 136,000 people have been affected by the floods.
The UN agency said it expected the number of those affected by flooding to increase as assessments were still under way and heavy rains had been forecast. The UN also said the number of people and localities affected by the seasonal rains as of August 14 had doubled compared with the same period last year.
According to the UN, about 314,500 people were affected across Sudan during the entire rainy season in 2021 that killed more than 80 people and swamped tens of thousands of houses across the country.
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