KHARTOUM: Crude camps housing South Sudanese have been flooded by heavy rains that inundated the Sudanese capital over the Eid Al Fitr holiday, a southern diplomat said yesterday.
Rain and high winds lashed Khartoum overnight Tuesday, soaking homes and streets for the second time since Friday at the start of the rainy season.
There were no reports of casualties but Kau Nak, charge d’affaires at the South Sudanese embassy, said many of his country’s nationals in ramshackle settlements known as “open areas” have been affected.
“Most of the open areas are flooded and there’s nowhere to go,” Kau Nak said, adding that he planned to assess the damage yesterday. The thousands of impoverished open-area residents include some who fled north after civil war began last December in South Sudan.
AFP
