People affected by Sudan’s floods complained of the State’s failure to help them and accused the authorities of not providing the necessary aid to confront the humanitarian catastrophe.
Floods and heavy rains in Sudan left 79 people dead and 30 injured, in addition to the partial or complete collapse of nearly 40,000 homes and the displacement of about 150,000 people.
The Early Warning Unit warned of the possibility of continuous moderate to heavy rain in a number of regions of the country in the coming days.
As of 12 August, torrential rains and floods have affected a number of provinces, destroying houses and facilities and damaging a number of agricultural projects and roads, especially in the River Nile and Gezira provinces.
On Monday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that more than 136,000 people have been affected by floods in the eastern Sudan and Kordofan states. The UN agency said it expected this figure to increase as the counting was still underway and heavy rains had been forecast.
Sudan’s rainy season usually lasts until September, with floods peaking just before then.
Last year, flooding and heavy rain killed more than 80 people and swamped tens of thousands of houses across the country. In 2020, authorities declared Sudan a natural disaster area and imposed a three-month state of emergency across the country after the deluge killed around 100 people and inundated over 100,000 houses.
