North State Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/north-state/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 North State Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/north-state/ 32 32 At least 23 die in Sudan flooding https://jjcornish.com/2018/09/at-least-23-die-in-sudan-flooding/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/09/at-least-23-die-in-sudan-flooding/ Torrential rains in northern Sudan and its western region of Darfur have killed at least 23 people and left nearly 9 000 homeless. Darfur is particularly hard hit because so many of its people are poorly housed in refugee camps. Ten of the drowning deaths have occurred in Sudan’s Nile State. Four miners were drowned […]

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]]> Torrential rains in northern Sudan and its western region of Darfur have killed at least 23 people and left nearly 9 000 homeless.

Darfur is particularly hard hit because so many of its people are poorly housed in refugee camps.

Ten of the drowning deaths have occurred in Sudan’s Nile State.

Four miners were drowned in North State – underlining the danger posed to those making their living by delving.

Two people drowned in Niergetiti in Central Darfur four people died of fever and diarrhea.

The Sudanese government says Darfur is at peace after a genocide that killed at least 400 000. But it has not been able to moved three million displaced people out of makeshift shelters into permanent accommodation.

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