{"id":58335,"date":"2022-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/08\/17\/death-toll-from-sudan-floods-increases-to-75-with-dozens-injured\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T00:00:00","slug":"death-toll-from-sudan-floods-increases-to-75-with-dozens-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2022\/08\/17\/death-toll-from-sudan-floods-increases-to-75-with-dozens-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from Sudan floods increases to 75, with dozens injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from flooding triggered by torrential rains in Sudan has risen to 75 and destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of homes, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The number of people killed by the floods rose to 75, and left 12,551 houses completely destroyed, and another 20,751 partially damaged,&quot; a National Council for Civil Defence statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that around 30 people had been injured.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rains usually fall in Sudan between May and October, and the country faces severe flooding every year, wrecking property, infrastructure and crops.<br \/>\nThe eastern state of Kassala, North and South Kordofan state, River Nile state, and South Darfur were among the most badly affected, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), citing government figures, estimated that around 136,000 people had been affected by rains and flooding since this year&#39;s rainy season began.<\/p>\n<p>It also said the number of people and localities affected as of August 14 &quot;has doubled&quot; compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>About 314,500 people were affected across Sudan during the entire rainy season in 2021, according to OCHA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains usually fall in Sudan between May and October, and the country faces severe flooding every year, wrecking property, infrastructure and crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}