Official: Sudan floods have killed more than 80 since July

Floods triggered by seasonal torrential rains in Sudan have killed more than 80 people and damd or destroyed some 35,000 homes since July, a senior police official said Monday.

Flooding has killed 84 people and injured ar 67 since start of rainy season, said police Brig. Gen. Abdul-Jalil Abdul-Rahim, spokesman for Sudan’s National Council for Civil Defense.

Fourteen of Sudan's 18 provinces have been affected by rains, which have demolished more than 8,000 houses and damd at least ar 27,000, Abdul-Rahim said. eastern provinces of River Nile and al-Qarif were hardest hit, he said.

Abdul-Rahim said people who lost ir houses have been taken to shelters close to ir neighborhoods, where y have been receiving humanitarian aid from local n-governmental organizations.

U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has said that 102,000 people have been affected by rains across country. Between Sept. 4-6, over 61,000 people, including 35,000 South Sudanese refugees, were affected by flooding in 53 vills in White Nile province’s Aj-Jabalain district, U.N. said.

U.N. complained that flood response in some affected areas has been delayed despite rising number of people affected.

Sudan Humanitarian Fund, a multi-dor fund run by U.N.’s humanitarian affairs office, has allocated $7.7 million to 14 NGOs in 15 provinces for swift humanitarian response, according to a statement released by UCHA on Thursday. Ar $7 million has been allocated to four U.N. ncies for procurement of emergency stocks.

Last year, Sudanese authorities declared country a natural disaster area and imposed a three-month state of emergency across country after flooding and heavy rain killed around 100 people and inundated over 100,000 houses.