Sudan - Emergency response assistance to populations affected by floods

The project is an emergency assistance relief package of $240,000 to fund ongoing humanitarian and emergency relief efforts in areas recently hit by floods in Sudan. Indeed, by the end of September, the Food Security Technical Secretariat reported that heavy rains and flooding had affected more than 860,000 people (over 480,000 of them children) in Sudan. Over 125,000 refugees and internally displaced people are among those affected in that country since the start of the rainy season in July. The states most affected by floods are Khartoum, North Darfur, Blue Nile, West Darfur and Sennar. More than 100 people have reportedly died as a result of the flooding. The funding is part of a multinational emergency response to provide relief to flood victims in the countries where torrential rains have caused rivers to overflow their dykes and banks, disrupting trade routes, damaging crops, killing livestock and submerging houses. The package, from the Bank’s Special Relief Fund, will be used to purchase food items and water, and to cover the implementation costs to be incurred by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).