ARBAAT, Sudan, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Emergency responders were scrambling on Tuesday to find out how many people remain missing after waters burst through a dam in eastern Sudan, resulting in the worst in a series of floods that have devastated a country already torn by 500 days of war.
A single excavator carried people and food across the water in Arbaat.
The flood has destroyed thousands of lives
Some 118,000 people have been displaced nationwide and more than 300,000 affected across the country, as the floods destroy homes and spread diseases including cholera.
“We don’t know how many are unaccounted for (in Arbaat). It’s very difficult to get information out from there,” said U.N. OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke.
WFP on Sunday said that the first shipments since mid-July had made it through the al-Tina border crossing into North Darfur, having been blocked by flooding there.
