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In Sudan, the Nile has overflowed. Half a million people were displaced and more than 100 died.
The water slid slowly and silently into the rooms. Those who were able to leave their home. Hajjj Kuka lives in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. He and his friends tried to stop the flooding with sandbags. “We were soaked, the water was up to our chests,” says the filmmaker.
People died from electric shocks and under the rubble of their houses.
Many walls were filled, houses collapsed. Many buildings are too close to the Nile due to corruption and poor planning. That’s why people died. “They died from electric shocks and under the rubble of their houses,” Hajjj Kuka said.
Not only the capital Khartoum is affected, but entire regions along the Nile. Hundreds of thousands of houses have been rendered uninhabitable and the Sudanese government has declared a state of emergency for three months.
In the Hajjj Kuka neighborhood, people have taken refuge in the drought. They lived there now in the shade of the trees. “It looks a bit like a refugee camp.” After all, according to Kuka: People have developed a resistance. “For many of us it is not the first time we have been evicted.”
After last year’s revolution, the government allowed foreign aid for the first time, says the filmmaker. This is urgently needed. Because even if the current government tries, it hardly has the means to help the people. Sudan’s economic situation is weak.
Cholera could follow the flood
“It is sad that floods are needed for people to take climate change seriously,” says activist Nisrin Elsaim. But whether there really is a direct connection is controversial. Meteorologists blame two regional weather events for the floods.
Elsaim was also in the area affected by the flood. He fears that the floods will be followed by a health crisis. “A lot of the toilets here are just holes in the floor that have been flushed. People don’t have clean water and have to drink river water. ”Cholera outbreaks often follow floods.
Today, the Nile carries twice as much water as in previous years. The rainy season lasts until mid-September. So the river level should finally drop again.
