NEWS: Past floods overflow Sudanese capital

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 08:25 am

Rising floodwaters and heavy rainfall have killed round a hundred humans southern Khartoum’s Alshiqlab neighbourhood.

The residents are struggling to cope with the injury triggered via file floods, that inundated over 100,000 houses due to the fact late July.

Residents of the neighbourhood are placing up barricades and putting in sandbags to shield themselves from the water, which has decreased some houses to a pile of wreckage.

Some families are compelled to live in the open after their residences have been destroyed.

A resident of Alshiqlab said the water was now not the solely problem.

“A large quantity of crocodiles have come,” he said.

Flooding induced with the aid of seasonal heavy rainfall, mainly in neighboring Ethiopia, led the Nile River to upward jab about 17.5 meters late in August, the best possible stage it has reached in about a century according to the Sudanese Irrigation Ministry.

The capital of Khartoum used to be hit difficult in the past two weeks.

On Friday, Sudanese authorities declared their country a herbal catastrophe location and imposed a three-month country of emergency across the country.

Rising floodwaters and heavy rainfall have killed around a hundred people.

The U.N. humanitarian company has warned that the scenario is expected to get worse over the coming weeks, as above-average rains are forecast till the quit of September.

(AFP)