Floods kill 27, damage 10,000 houses
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Sudan Floods kill 27, damage 10,000 houses*
By Opheera Mcdoom in Khartoum, Sudan
August 24, 2006 03:34am
Article from: Reuters
FLOODS and heavy rain have killed at least 27 people and damaged about
10,000 homes in Sudan, the Interior Ministry and other sources said.
The Blue and White Nile rivers, which meet in Khartoum, are threatening
government ministries and the Republican Palace as the water in the
capital rose to less than a metre below Nile street, home to the
government's main buildings.
Tens of thousands of square kilometres of farmland, in a country where
most people depend on agriculture as a way of life, have been engulfed
by the water.
And in the east of the country, aid workers fear flooding will worsen an
outbreak of cholera.
“There is great concern that disease will spread very fast ... once the
water stops flowing fast,” said Caroline Nursey, the head of Oxfam aid
agency in Sudan.