Five hundred houses and several commercial buildings have been destroyed by flooding in the Hadalia area of eastern Sudan, the daily newspaper ‘al-Ayyam’ reported on Thursday. Flood waters of the River Gash in Kassala State had “isolated totally” the town of Wager, and caused the collapse of its grand mosque, the report stated. Six villages in the Al-Hawsh province of Al-Jazirah State, central Sudan, had also been devastated by flooding, and large agricultural areas were now under water, it added.
The IFRC warned on 13 August that tens of thousands of people were being forced to flee their homes as the Nile, swollen by heavy rains, submerged entire villages. The Federation added that contingency plans were needed in case the river burst its banks in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. [for more details and UNOCHA situation report, see Sudan page at: www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/WCE?OpenForm]
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