{"id":5042,"date":"2019-09-03T09:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T06:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"sudan-villagers-reel-from-nile-water-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/03\/sudan-villagers-reel-from-nile-water-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Villagers Reel From Nile Water Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days after a\ndevastating flood swallowed up his village, Alsediq Abdelqader bulled his truck\nthrough the waters in a desperate attempt to locate his small house north of\nthe Sudanese capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flash floods from the\nNile inundated his home last week in Wad Ramli village on the eastern river\nbank, expelling him and his family who managed to clamber aboard a ferry to the\nnearest dry land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His drive through the\nflash floods was not easy as he had to avoid floating mattresses, house\nappliances and broken tree branches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My entire home\nis destroyed,&#8221; said the 57-year-old. &#8220;I have lived all my life in\nthis village and I have never seen a flood like this before.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m struggling\nto recognize my house and trying to identify it, as some others have done, by\nthe trees around it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His home is among\nthousands destroyed or damaged by the floods that struck at least 15 states,\naffecting nearly 200,000 people across Sudan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Sudan-villagers-reel-from-Nile-water-floods\/1066-5250822-10s0sygz\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Days after a devastating flood swallowed up his village, Alsediq Abdelqader bulled his truck through the waters in a desperate attempt to locate his small house north&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}