Security and Defense Council Declares State of Emergency for Three Months

Khartoum (SUNA) – The Security and Defense Council declared a state of emergency throughout the country for a period of three months and decided considering Sudan a natural disaster area and formation a higher committee to ward off and address the effects of the floods for the fall of 2020 headed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development and the membership of all ministries, the states and concerned authorities for coordinating and using resources and integrating the local, regional and global roles in this regard.

The decision was declared at a meeting held Friday 4th Sep. evening at a meeting of the Security and Defence Council in the Republican Palace.

The state of emergency was declared by the council after reviewing reports on the floods and standing on size of the human losses and material damage that affected 16 states of Sudan, and resulted in the death of 99 citizens the injury of 46 others.

Around half a million people were affected by the floods which had caused the total and partial collapse of more than 100 thousand homes.