September 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least five people have been killed and more than 30 injured on Tuesday in flooding caused by torrential rains in two camps for internally displaced persons in North Darfur state, western Sudan.
Activist Mudazer Hussein Mustafa told Sudanese news portal Sudan Tribune that the casualties were caused by the collapse of houses in the Kasab and Fata Borno camps, located in the town of Kutum.
He stressed that the city has experienced heavy rains since the end of August, causing flooding in the area, which has suffered material damage to homes, public buildings and fields, amid the serious crisis caused by the civil war that broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The hostilities erupted amid heightened tensions over the integration of the RSF into the armed forces, a key part of a deal signed in December to form a new civilian government and revive the open transition following the 2019 overthrow of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, damaged by the October 2021 coup that ousted Prime Minister of Unity Abdallah Hamdok.
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