According to activists and officials in the affected areas, people are living in extremely dangerous humanitarian and health conditions as a result of a lack of help and problems in reaching the stricken towns, some of which have been completely flooded by water.
Shawqi Moussa, a resident of the damaged areas in the south of Al-Manaqil in Al-Jazira state, stated that the depletion of food stockpiles and problems in reaching health institutions is compounding the problem owing to an increase in serious sickness cases among children and the elderly.
According to Moussa, the breeding of mosquitoes and flies has resulted in the development of malaria, typhoid, and watery diarrhoea, which has expanded dramatically owing to poor environmental conditions and a shortage of safe drinking water.
People are drinking from ponds and pits because the communities’ limited water networks have been destroyed or disrupted, he added.
Moussa noted the insufficient government response and the challenges in gaining access for civil relief organisations, which exacerbates the suffering of those affected.
Thousands of families are surviving in the open in these appalling conditions after entire towns were flooded.
The situation is even worse in the state of the Nile, which runs adjacent to Khartoum; Abu Bakr Suleiman, a resident of one of the most affected villages, claims that the liquidity destroyed more than 25 villages amid real fears of major environmental and health disasters, following reports that mining residues were mixed with torrential waters that flooded the area densely populated with gold mining sites, resulting in health and environmental disasters that are dif on her.
Floods in Sudan have damaged 5,000 houses and killed 80 people.
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