Made homeless by record floods, tens of thousands of Sudanese wait for aid


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  • Wednesday, 09 Sep 2020

An aerial view shows buildings and roads submerged by floodwaters near the Nile River in South Khartoum, Sudan September 8, 2020. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities and the United Nations are rolling out aid to tens of thousands who lost their homes in record Nile floods, but many of those camping out on roadsides and higher ground are despairing of when it will reach them.

Sudan's government said it had allocated more than 150 million Sudanese pounds (2.11 million pounds) to help flood victims, the state news agency said.

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