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Sudan has experienced a natural disaster since the flooding of the Nile River, which led to humanitarian crises, with the death of more than a hundred people, the demolition of more than one hundred thousand houses, partially or totally, and more than half a million people affected , according to the Minister of Labor and Social Development Lina Al-Sheikh.
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Leaving the inventory of the economic consequences until after the flood.
And the Sudanese government declared a state of emergency in the country.
Solidarity campaigns and calls for support and assistance
Hashtags have been spread on social media, expressing solidarity with the Sudanese for their injuries.
The most used hashtags were # Sudan and Sudan sinking, and from the heart, peace, for Khartoum, which simulates the hashtag # From my heart Peace for Beirut that tweeters used in solidarity with Lebanon in the incident of the port explosion. The label is the lyrics of a Beirut song sung by Fairuz.
Tweets ranged from praying for relief and mercy for the Sudanese, to circulating photos and videos showing the extent of the damage in Khartoum and other cities that were inundated by the flood.
Initiatives to collect material support for those affected by the floods were also disseminated.
What is the cause of the floods in Sudan?
The level of the Blue Nile River, which meets the White Nile in Khartoum, has risen in a manner historically described by experts and officials, who “have not witnessed since the start of monitoring the water level in the river in 1902.”
The floods and floods in the rainy season in Sudan are an event that the country witnesses almost every year.
But this year’s floods are the largest and most damaging, surpassing in their devastation the floods of 1946 and 1988, which were considered the worst.
The flooding reached areas that were previously not reached by river water, and other areas in the course of the Nile are still threatened, as the water level continues to rise.
On social media, some linked the flood to the disputed Renaissance dam between Ethiopia and Egypt.
While others said that Egypt can save Sudan if the doors of the Great Dam were opened!
However, Sudanese experts and officials denied the Renaissance Dam’s link to the floods and emphasized the invalidity of the “hypothesis” of mitigating the damage by raising the gates of the Alta Dam in Aswan, Egypt.
Experts have been closely monitoring the water levels in the Nile and its tributaries since the start of the rainy season, warning that they are unprecedented, as Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok quoted in a Facebook post more than a week ago. .
Fragile infrastructure
The Sudanese ask many questions that refer to hypotheses where the damage is less than what is happening on the ground today.
Some asked why there are no dams to protect the country from drowning, especially since there are many rivers in Sudan that are tributaries of the Nile, which flows into the Blue Nile, the White Nile and other rivers.
Many Sudanese also spoke of the lack of resilience of the country’s infrastructure and what they describe as “ignoring the current regime and before that of Bashir” because of the priority of developing the country’s infrastructure, for which floods pose a threat. constant.
These allegations were also linked to reports in the Sudanese media that the Federal Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport concluded an agreement to import trains from China.
Some have attributed Sudan’s poor infrastructure to the sanctions that were being imposed on the country. .
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Many exchanged a photo of a man carrying his little daughter on his shoulders and the water had reached his chin! Some have turned him into an icon that expresses what is happening in Sudan.
But in fact, this photo is not from Sudan, it was taken in Haiti, when a tropical storm hit it years ago.
These days, a lot of photographs taken in Sudan are posted, but some of them are old or from a country other than Sudan.
Echoes of the Sudan flood in Egypt
The Nile, whose waters overflowed in Sudan, crosses the border with Egypt, so Egyptians are more interested in the floods in Sudan than others.
Some of them fear the same disaster will happen in Egypt.
The Egyptian government responded quickly to the concerns of the Egyptians, confirming that it is ready for any emergency and that the capacity of the Great Dam is sufficient to cope with a flood such as the one that occurred in Sudan.
Talking often on Twitter and Facebook about the course of the floods that occurred in Sudan and “probably” in Egypt led to a debate about the High Dam itself and the decision to build it.
This also led to a renewed debate on the person of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who built the High Dam during his reign and the period of his rule.
